This post has absolutely nothing to do with kitchen gardening – although there is a slight link to pumpkins, but more of that later. Anyway, what I want to draw your attention to is that a good friend of mine – Julie Vinci, has a exhibition of work opening this Friday. Julie works in a number of mediums, one of which is photography and she has contributed to this blog by both inspiring and occasionally taking some of the images you have seen here.
Quoting her press release:
The exhibition ‘Line of Beeps’ is a look into the personal journey of grieving for a person diagnosed with a terminal disease.
“This work was born from a need to dissect and understand the emotions and thoughts raised by my Father’s recent terminal Illness.”
The images are a representation of a literal need of trying to make sense of something as arbitrary and random as death, by placing ‘specimens’ of common buttons in an ordered and systematic manner resembling scientific documentation or a museum display. The specimens (the buttons), are arranged and laid in a regular order and held in place on a display board with authentic entomology pins. The buttons in this instance represent the life of a person and their collected memories and experiences, gathered over a life time.
Julie found, through talking to friends and family that she was not alone in recalling memories as a child, of playing with buttons collected in an old jar. It seems that the button collection is an item common to many households and this created a touching metaphor for a person’s life experiences.
Opening night 7th September from 6pm to 8pm. EXHIBITION RUNS FROM 7TH Sept. to 7th Oct. 2012
Opendrawer Gallery is located at 1158 Toorak Rd. Camberwell, Melbourne
For examples of Julie’s work including some rather risque photos of herself and the aforementioned pumpkins then follow the link to her website.
How can we resist, with the words “risqué” and “pumpkin” appearing in the same sentence!
beautiful images. My Nanna had a rocking button collection. Totally relate to the pumpkin cradling.
See, it’s reasons like this that I miss living in the ‘big smoke’. I’d love to pop in and see exhibitions like this from time-to-time, when it suited me, rather than having to plan a whole day and take a packed lunch!
There are definite plusses (pluses?) to living in a rural area, but this isn’t one of them. Good luck to Julie, I hope her exhibition goes well.
The opening was fun and went well – although Mr 2 drove me mad (I spent much of it running after him screaming NO!!! as he went to touch the works) and we had to leave early in search of Vietnamese food. One day I will actually be able to relax and enjoy being somewhere with him, without living in constant fear of destruction —unfortuantely it doesn’t look like that will be anytime soon.