Mirage (II)

a circular but irregular blue print of indistinct shrubland over a topographic map

 

Mirage II
2023 cyanotype print on found mapinimitables
  Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillipsto map
45 x 59 cm Unique state printframed $880
cyanotype print on found topographic map  
Exhibition: Footings2023Nyisztor Studio, Melville 
Exhibition: Rock Love2024Artgold, Boulder 
Exhibition: Collected Habitats2025Ellenbrook Arts, Ellenbrook 

Experimental application of cyanotype onto a found map.

This work was created as part of the Terrane project, an artist in residence at the Western Australian Museum of the Goldfields in 2023. The project investigated representations of the nonhuman in the WA Museum Dwyer and Mackay photographic archive; the history of bioextraction in the form of trees cut down in the surrounding landscape for energy and mining; and mineral specimens from a historical teaching collection.