VEIL OF TIMEStudio detail, Australia, 2018 Glass, mineral samples from the Blue Mountains region of Australia. Permanent collection of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Australia.

VEIL OF TIME

Studio detail, Australia, 2018
Glass, raw earth and mineral samples gathered by residents in the Blue Mountains region of NSW, Australia. Permanent collection of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Australia.

 
 

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Last summer in Italy with a Seravezza marble piece, arabescato dorato (golden arabesque), cut from an old block I found a few years ago. Shaped by hand with air chisels and rasps—no angle grinder shaping/polishing. A two-part sculpture to be ha
Extraordinary tree ferns. The collection of plants inhabiting the Palazzo Galli Tassi courtyard includes two tree ferns, an ancient plant group that predates dinosaurs, with a number of species native to Australia. I have many special memories of the
Silver twilight light during the waning full moon in the courtyard of Palazzo Galli Tassi. Like the discovery of a garden, the experience of art can feel like an arrival—one travels to and moves around (or within) an artwork, composing perspec
During the Italian Renaissance, the understanding that a garden could be a work of art emerged for the first time in modern history. In the Renaissance garden, as described by Italian historian Claudia Lazzaro, the formal is "juxtaposed with the