Fiona Van Oyen
Looking Downward #1, 2021
Reductive linocut print
645 x 825mm
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I have lived nearby the Hoon Hay Valley for 30 years and now many of my places to walk are becoming managed and groomed. Today, on my walks, I look...
I have lived nearby the Hoon Hay Valley for 30 years and now many of my places to walk are becoming managed and groomed. Today, on my walks, I look downward for pockets of ‘wild’ and ‘untamed’.
The haptic embossed surface of this print reminds me of my phenomenological and ontological responses - what I feel inside my body - when I'm on the land I know"