Paris.

Made while living in Paris, France, this series of limited edition large-scale woodcut prints takes on the theme of a humble object, the table. These prints took inspiration from what could have been sculptures, but which never eventuated instead they are graphic reductions of those concepts. Playing with ideas about language and symbolism, the series focused on the French expression à table or tabler, roughly translated as ‘to get it out’, ‘talk it out’ or ‘to put it on the table’. Here the table is shown as an icon, a symbol for what it is like to be foreign in a country whose language is not your own. A table as a site, is somewhere all emotions and experiences can be placed- upsets, joy, romance, distress, fatigue, and not least, hunger. A table is a very good platform for discussion, a very good place to locate ideas and meaning. Other works, like Millefeuille, play with the idea of quantity and repetition and the idea that we repeat what we say but sometimes it still goes unheard. Le métro, is an embossing, unlike the other works of the series, it looks at the way people move around congested spaces and places, bringing the Australian outback culture of a sheep-run to the urban dwelling of Paris, it’s city centre, and the métro. Visit the blog, ingenue. for more about Paris.