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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca, fabric, steel, bamboo, 320 x 350 x 750cm |
HIDDEN
On the Way to Ithaca was created for the fifth HIDDEN Rookwood Sculpture Walk held at the Rookwood Cemetery; the largest working cemetery in the southern hemisphere. The exhibition was curated by Cassandra Hard Lawrie. 40 selected artists responded to themes appropriate to the site such as life, love, death, loss, memory and mortality as well as the culture around memorial, eulogy, burial and ceremony.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Have Ithaca always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don’t in the least hurry the journey.
Better it last for years……..
Constantine P Cavafy
However long our life may be our journey is punctuated by many beginnings and ends. These moments are marked in funerary architecture and memorial landscaping by gates, arches and avenues. On the Way to Ithaca is an ethereal response to these forms as we travel between our first and last breaths; our lives shaped by our ties and connections to one another. The installation aims to explore the tension between life and death, and the fragility of life, as we journey towards Ithaca.
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca, installation detail |
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca |
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca, installation detail |
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca |
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca, installation view from the All Souls Chapel |
CREATIVE PROCESS
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| Suzanne Davey, On the Way to Ithaca proposal drawing |
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| On the Way to Ithaca, developing the work in studio |
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| On the Way to Ithaca, installation on site |