extractivism – Perdita Phillips

a cropped picture of an Edwardian woman and a baby obscured by a blob of red dirt.

Danaë Unbound

Danaë who was pursued by Zeus (or Miss E. D. photographed by J J Dwyer 6 June 1909)

dark bluish grey image with lots of fine speckled detail and a number of dark blue-black rounded and elongated shapes

Night Lake (position doubtful)

dark night flying over landscape

a dark red stain made of soil and ochre painted onto a banner printed with a black and white aerial photo

Red Cloud (salt lake)

soil is turned and lifts into the sky: red dust over an aerial landscape

detail of a black and white print on fabric that has been coloured with reddish ochre. Text on the left reads Kalgoorlie (townsite) and on the right is a jagged network of tenement boundaries with the names of finds

Tenements (Frearson’s 1895)

yellow light and pink ochres across the Golden Mile

dull, greyish pattern of shapes -- print on fabric of an aerial photograph of the Golden Mile in 1949

Wartime (1949)

searching for the infamous Boulder Block

a sepia-toned digital print on canvas of an indistinct willy willy of dust advancin towards a picket fence that is propped up with a piece of wood

Willy Willy (edge of town)

dust rises through the town — willy willy

a grey splotchy background with a paler organic oval shape in the lower left corner over which a red coloured tracery of lines has been painted with soil/ochre muddy paint

Woodlines

a map of the largest extent of temporary woodlines around Kalgoorlie-Boulder/Karlkurla, covering an area bigger than Tasmania

a bluish heavily cropped image of two men standing face to face viewed from the chest up

footwall

the slime returns from the dumps outside to the stopes inside — printed from a historical image from the Dwyer and Mackay collection

an image divided into a map visible on the left with a blue photographic image of small shrubs printed over it on the right

Mirage (II)

Experimental application of cyanotype onto a found map.

Terrane Project Drawing 2023–2025 mixed media on paper inimitables Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillips to map 187 x 140 cm POA Mixed media and local soil on paper Project: Terrane Project 2023–2025 Kalgoorlie-Boulder/Karlkurla A map of the Terrane Project. https://www.perditaphillips.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PHILLIPS-Perdita-copyright-Terrane-Project-2023-terrane-project-drawing-wander.mp4

Postcards from the Underground

both/and postcards: a collaborative meditation on stygofauna and extraction

Image tag: extractivism

maven (raven)