Installing the show at VCA Gallery
Exhibition opening: Tuesday May 13 from 6:00PM
at VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank
✌This site is for group development and response to the project✌
Exhibition opening: Tuesday May 13 from 6:00PM
at VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank
The Fringe Lily & the Amber Bottle
A man took a stroll from his hilly retreat down the winding track. Darkness approached without hesitance but the man was not frightened, but more intrigued. After he arrived at the bottom of the winding track, he spots a sign up ahead which reads: Lawson’s Falls. He decided to explore it out of curiosity. The track immediately descended into dense vegetation on all sides. Looking further down the track there was the illusion of walking into a very large burrow and it seemed more believable as the forest scene lost light. Shifting his gaze down, he noticed how dull and blurred the ground appeared, where it usually bore the colour of desert sand in the midday sun. The hill was hard on his knees which were soon aching. As he realized the extent of pain felt walking down this hill, he noticed a small red berry hanging from a branch across the track. This berry usually attracted his gaze in the daytime. Now it was dull and lifeless and hardly noticeable at all had he not nearly walked into it. Plucking a berry from the branch, he strolled along and soon came to the bottom of the descent. Here there was a short bridge crossing over a small creek and the man preceded with a sense of excitement. Crossing the other side the vegetation changed immediately from small shrubs and trees to tall, green tree ferns and rusty decaying leaf litter. The track climbed up further. It was now the twilight zone, the animals and birds exhausted from their day are now resting and the whole area becomes rather silent for a few minutes. The vibrant colour that radiated from ferns, trees, fruit and the sky are diminished now. And with their colour extinguished they begin to grow silent and still, almost afraid to show a sign a life. Are the ferns too tired to rustle their fronds or are they weary not to disturb the sleeping inhabitants of the forest?
As the man walks further he can begin to hear the flowing creek he’d passed earlier. It is getting louder as he ascends the track. Then he notices a track veering to the left. Turning onto this track, which again descends steeply, the man stops to gaze out of the canopy at the sky. It is now the only trace of colour left in his surroundings. He studies the sky and then shifts his gaze back down to the dense, dark shrubs all around which are threatening to trap him in for the night if he does not head back soon. The track ends with several steps which drop steeply into an open area with a running waterfall. The man decides to stay a few minutes to listen to the waterfall while he consumes an alcoholic beverage. As he is about to take his last swig from the bottle he instead peers inside it and he is amazed at the amber colour beaming from inside. He swivels the liquid from side to side inside the near empty bottle and tries to make out his surroundings through amber. He is actually sitting inside the amber bottle looking out and trying to make sense of a world where everything is only one colour: amber. After some time studying the distorted amber world, he imagines himself falling out of the bottleneck and back into his real self standing at the base of the waterfall. The sky is nearly dark. The area is now almost black and becoming quite scared now, he heads back.
Nearing the top of the hill where his campsite is, the man can see the mass of black trees he’d been walking through along the track to the waterfall. Then he imagines a warm blazing campfire and thinks of how its vibrant reds, yellows and oranges will create light. It might be the only light, the only visible colour for miles. However, as this very thought comes to mind, an ambush of blinding colour makes him stop dead. A flower is attacking his senses, shooting a flash of fluorescent purple deep into his eyes. What on earth? A glowing purple flower appearing spontaneously from darkness? He bends down to peer straight into it. A colour more rich and vibrant than he can ever remember is obscuring his eyeballs. He marvels some more and thinks of how its petals look like purple coffee beans.
The next morning he wakes up and immediately thinks to look at the flower again. This time he is somewhat let down when the flower doesn’t greet his eyes like it did last night. Its uniqueness seems lost. Overall, it looks fairly dull in comparison to anything else. Despite this, the encounter with that purple flower still remains in his memory.
THE END Copyright © Corey Macleod 2008
Colour has a very big impact on fashion and the latest trends. Most people chose their clothes based on the colour of the garment. If the colour does not appeal the buyer they will not purchase it.
The colour of clothes change all the time mainly because of the seasons. E.g. colours for clothes in summer are bright and colourful to match with the bright hot sun but in winter clothes become a lot duller but still come in a range of patterns and shades.
Colour in fashion is also impacted by your feelings and moods. If you feel happy you wear bright and colourful clothes, but if you feel sad you wear dull clothes because your mood changes just like the seasons.
As fashion changes so do our likes and dislikes, but colour is one thing that we always look at before buying clothes.
Mel Lawson and Amanda Swinburne
COLOUR CHOICE is a project initated by Evergreen Terrace in collaboration with Sean Peoples and Bewrick Secondary College. It is about exploring our connections to colour with the outcome of choosing 5 colours from ANYWHERE for artist Christopher L.G. Hill to use in a wall drawing. The drawing and the material developed through these class sessions will form part of Evergreen Terrace's work for 'Unsheltered Workshop', an exhibition as included in the Next Wave Festival 2008. 'Unsheltered Workshop' opens at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery on the 13th of May 2008 and is curated by Jeff Khan and assisted by Ulanda Blair.
Evergreen Terrace is James Deutsher and Liv Barrett.