Red Cloud (salt lake)

 

Red Cloud (salt lake)	2024	digitally printed banner with soil	multiples
		Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillips	environment
187 x 140 cm		Edition of 3 (unique state)	$2850
Digital print with local soil on organic cotton canvas
Project: Terrane Project	2023	Kalgoorlie/Boulder/Karlkurla
Exhibition: Rock Love	2024	Artgold, Boulder
Exhibition: Collected Habitats	2025	Ellenbrook Arts, Ellenbrook

The stain of soil in Red Cloud (salt lake) hovers like a ghost above an aerial landscape pitted with white saltlakes. The red spectre is made from soil and ochre collected from around Kalgoorlie-Boulder/Karlkurla. It was created as part of the Terrane Project, an Art on the Move residency at the Museum of the Goldfields. The project brought together the archive, the woodlines, and the underlying mineral realm.

Dust on the breath… dust expired, dust inspired …dust in the town, dust in the streets and in the archives …dust in the lungs… dust from open pit blasts, the land rises in dust storms (made worse by timber-getting) …is she breathing in or out?