Ode to Waratah
2020
Imagine the world is a basket, that all matter, since the forming of the planet is held within it, always.
Everything that is, from plants to people to protozoa, has been formed from clouds of dust and gas. This started a long time ago, and everything that has been - and will be - formed is held within Waratah.
From Designing Mythology
Designing Mythology is a questioning and proposal for old ways / new to exist as humans, using the process of 'mything' to reorientate back towards the planet, and recalibrate our value systems by dismantling the current shadow metaphors of the Western-colonial worldview. It proposes the restorying of scientific perspectives to offer a cosmology that includes humans as part of the living world whilst simultaneously removing us from the centre. Thus a recognition and return, via a circuitous route, to the worldviews, deep connection and sustainment of the first peoples of our planet.
Ode to Watarah, hand-etched glass, polypropylene and steel
40.5 x 52.5 x 52.5cm, edition of 8
Ode to Watarah, hand-etched glass, polypropylene and steel
50.5 x 52.5 x 52.5cm, edition of 8
Maker and production Luke Mills
Glass (table top) Scarlett and Brian Mellows / Aurora Glass
Photographer James Morgan
