INUNDATION (HER STORY)
2017
INUNDATION HER STORY)
Tissue paper, graphite, thread, flood salvaged and restored chair, 2017
Inundation (Her Story) is a sculptural concertina artist book showing the extent of the 1954/1974 flooding of the Wilson River from Eltham (where I grew up) to Lismore. The 'book' is bound to a restored edwardian chair, salvaged from a pile of flood rubbish, just prior to being smashed by a bulldozer cleaning rubbish off the street. This work refers to occasions where women have pressed on with their lives regardless of major floods, stories such as the 1954 Queen's visit to Lismore and the women who forded floods waters in their Sunday best to get home, or the family wedding disrupted by flood with guests arriving by boat, or back in the days before they were married, my father escorting my mother home in the middle of the night after a local ball, crossing a flooded bridge on foot, Mum with her ball gown hitched up above the waters.