- ID Ref #
- 10466
- Prize Category
- Emerging Artist
- Preferred Artist Name for publication (this name will be used on all the collateral)
- Mia Forrest
- Your social media handles
- @miaforrest.jpg (instagram)
- Artist / Gallery Website
- http://www.mia-forrest.com
- Artwork Title
- Remnants
- Entry Type
- All other media
- URL link of the entry
- Password or any other important information about viewing the file
- Detailed Instructions for the setup of your instillation / sculpture
- Framed artwork to be mounted onto wall, accompanied by 2-channel stereo headphones. I could not upload the sound to my entry, but it is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sgf4Bib3xbKlLgb1o40UTKRz59PkA1RE/view?usp=sharing
- Medium
- hand embroidered silk thread on cotton cloth
- Dimensions
- 86cm x 122cm
- Depth
- 5
- Weight
- 10
- Price
- $9500
- Delivery
- Courier
- Collection
- Courier
- Gallery Representation
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- Artist Statement
- Artworks from my series 'Stitching as Storage' series explore how textiles can store, index, and arrange ecological data in meaningful ways that allow us to access and recite ephemeral data. Once a vast 75,000-hectare expanse of subtropical rainforest in northeastern NSW, the Big Scrub was home to extraordinary biodiversity. However, due to extensive land clearing and colonial agribusiness, only 0.13% remains in isolated fragments today. Remnants is a diptych of 8,896 hand-embroidered silk stitches on a grid-based cotton canvas, encoding an aleatoric notation derived from the rhythmic biodata of two species from Booyong Flora Reserve: the native Giant Water Gum, and the Cat’s Claw Creeper, an invasive weed To retrieve the biodata from the plants, sensors are directly attached to the plant to record the changes in electrical conductivity that transpire through the stomata: a direct channel between the plants’ internal autonomous systems and the conditions of the external world. This biodata is then sonified and notated as a quantised rhythmic composition, where each embroidered line signifies the duration of an 1/8th note, encoding the plant's biological rhythms into geometric harmony. The stitches articulate a rule-based compositional system that notate the “beat” of the plants. The choice of stitching with two color values nods to the most basic form of computer code: base-2, wherein two binary values are utilized to constitute conversation, or in this case, rhythmic notation.
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- Created At
- March 5, 2025
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