FIELD (WOODEN CYPHER)
Field, a collaboration with Chris Bond, is an open-ended investigation of the way we find meaning in things and events. (Wooden cypher) is the second presentation.
Installed at Blindside in Melbourne, 6-23 May 2015. An installation of objects found and made: a wooden box, ink on board, oil on wood, wood, watercolour and gouache on board, 5-channel recording of a voice reading a text.
A collaborative text: www.serpentcurling.com
Exhibition documented by Chris Bond.
21 paintings, gouache and watercolour on board constructed into boxes, 5 audio recordings of voice speaking about the box, Lynette Smith; original box in the middle
21 boxes with the ‘inside of the box’ by Chris Bond on a shelf
The inside of the box, by Chris Bond, solid wood, oil paint, pastel
The action of opening a box, ink and watercolour on board, as if preparing for egg tempera, Lynette Smith
Open, close, preparing to paint; Lynette Smith (upper painting, ink on board), Chris Bond (lower painting, oil on canvas)