Rest and Worm, 2022

Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm - group show,

KINGS Artist Run, Naarm/so called Melbourne

Rest, wood, plasticine, 20cmx 25cm, 2022

The knot of wood shown from above, pink ball is in the middle, the splintered wood looks golden.
The knot of wood shown from beneath, its smooth grey surface, the wood grain swells up to the splinters.
The knot of wood with the pink ball of plasticine. A person’s legs pass in the background.

Worm, video, audio, 3.34, 2022

A corner of a room with printed text on a white wall, too small to read. Below hangs a pair of headphones connected to a widescreen monitor on a brick wall opposite with a still from my film of a hanging pink plasticine worm dangling from a tree bran
Same image, but with a different film still of the pink worm, shown from beneath, the worm dangling upwards on the screen.
Same image, the worm dangling to the right of the screen.
Same image, the worm is there, threatening to break out of screen.

Swaying in the breeze

Like someone has just picked it up on a twig out of the compost

Only it's giant

Held in the arm of a fig tree

Swaying erratically, in the breeze

You want the breeze to stop so the constant questing is over

All slippery

Slipping inside your clothes

Tasting your skin, with their skin

And you take it home with you

Down

Down into you

Your tummy swells

Till there is only a bit sticking out

Superficially protecting you

Every night, sliding out, 

to be beside you again.

Film available upon request

contact: sam-petersen@live.com.au

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