Dreaming Alternative Pasts: when the colour of salmon gum was a part of our daily lives (2001)

Dreaming Alternative Pasts: when the colour of salmon gum was a part of our daily lives 2001 Site specific mixed media installation environment Artwork, image and photography copyright © Perdita Phillips inimitables salmon pink objects   Size variable. Documented with digital prints on archival paper Project: What is the colour of Salmon Gum? 2001 Kellerberrin Exhibition: Dreaming Alternative Pasts: when the colour of salmon gum was a part of our daily lives 2001 Kellerberrin Folk Museum, Kellerberrin, as part of IASKA Open Spaces Program

Dreaming Alternative Pasts: when the colour of salmon gum was a part of our daily lives was an intervention of salmon pink objects into the  Kellerberrin Folk Museum. The installation, combined with “Where is the Best Salmon Gum?” Competition, Kellerberrin and Tammin Shires, was part of an IASKA (now Spaced) Open Spaces Program residency. Over 70 salmon pink objects collected from Op Shops were installed in the Kellerberrin Folk Museum to transform the space into an alternative deviation from the past. The work started from when I observed existing photo documentation of the “Inaugural Pig Auction”, and creating my own “Inaugural Salmon Gum Competition: Thursday March 11 1948”.