Time’s Tattoo is a visual essay about the past’s effect on our personal presence. It examines our ability to fall back in to patterns and questions our ability to break through to newness.
The past’s ghost emerges in our present in hidden as well as overt ways – sometimes recognised sometimes silently from the wings; its invisibility bearing no relation to the depth of its effect.
Time’s Tattoo explores our right to look through it, to perceive it and to grasp its ability to smother and inform. Using the literature of ancestral lace to represent time, Jo draws her personal conclusions on the tattooed legacy of the past, in doing so allowing her to let it go. While there is nothing we can do about our past - we can feel it and know its place - not let it dictate our future.
It is not a political commentary but rather a personal expression of the complexity of presence.
76 x 112 cm embroidery deboss, charcoal, graphite on Hahnemuhle
112 x 76 cm embroidery deboss, graphite
embroidery deboss, graphite. Wyndham Art Prize finalist
embroidery deboss, charcoal and graphite
embroidery deboss, graphite
embroidery deboss and graphite
embroidery deboss and graphite
150 cm x 40 cm carved form Hebel stone, coated with marble dust in polymer
150 cm x 40 cm carved form Hebel stone, coated with marble dust in polymer
embroidery deboss, charcoal on Hahnemuhle
embroidery deboss, graphite on Hahnemuhle
embroidery deboss, charcoal on Hahnemuhle
embroidery deboss, charcoal on Hahnemuhle
