Antipodean adder 2023

AG503583
pencil on mulberry paper frottage from waste plastics and found materials 
unframed 
90.5 x 61 cm (h x w)

This work draws on the correlations between waste plastics, such as that sourced from biscuit packaging and meat trays, and snakeskin. The 'weaving' pattern is loosely based on the markings that can be found on Australia’s Death Adder, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world. The work sets up a counterpart to the Baltic Adder, alluding to the blurring of cultural identities and reinvention of self that occurs with migrant diasporas; one needs to shed one's former identity for a new culture, but vestiges always remain.

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