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Janette Porter
Field Shed/Urban/Ecology
Process is a key element of Janette’s ecological artwork. She is reconstructing elements of her practice as performative art using Gaia Cabinet as a companion studio, in parallel with her allotment Field Shed studio in Liverpool. Janette invites us to observe her practice at both studio spaces.
This is a work to visit weekly culminating in a final piece entitled Ash Works. Driftwood is collected from the Mersey, stored and dried. Chippings are made from the collected wood and they are burnt with no other elements. The dried and cooled embers are stored until such time when a fine rain will wash through them, leaving a trace of the journey behind on the paper it rested upon.
Process is a key element of Janette’s ecological artwork. She is reconstructing elements of her practice as performative art using Gaia Cabinet as a companion studio, in parallel with her allotment Field Shed studio in Liverpool. Janette invites us to observe her practice at both studio spaces.
This is a work to visit weekly culminating in a final piece entitled Ash Works. Driftwood is collected from the Mersey, stored and dried. Chippings are made from the collected wood and they are burnt with no other elements. The dried and cooled embers are stored until such time when a fine rain will wash through them, leaving a trace of the journey behind on the paper it rested upon.
Earth- driftwood collected, dried and stored
Fire- burnt the driftwood to ash
Water- the rain that fell onto the ash
Ashworks, a memory of a journey of earth, fire and water
2008
Driftwood collected, Merseyside 1996
Fire and rain, Merseyside 2008
'...Process was how I intended for Ashworks to expose itself, slowly and perfomativley, viewed not only by the passer by at gallery or feild shed but in this instance through the eye of a camera. I invited a film maker to observe my work, watching and waiting for events to happen which would be documented. The elements of Earth, Fire and Water where worked with respectfully and patiently, whilst Ashworks waited to evolve.' - Janette Porter (December 2008)
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