Auguste Blackman 'Peek-A-Boo' still life

Auguste Blackman 'Peek-A-Boo' still lifeThe rabbit has long since symbolised the cyclical nature of life. The animals seemingly endless capacity for regeneration is what inspired German Lutherins in the 17th century to connect them with Christs resurrection, thus inventing the Easter Bunny. The Ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Mayans also recount seeing a rabbits outline in the moons surface and so perceived them as twinned symbols. The contraction of the moon to crescent and back to disc was

process-driven practice

Interiors evoke one’s inner world

springing open your window and letting the light billow in

Giardino and his fellow Roar comrades yanked art back into the frontline of life

Despite the abstract composition

At once about the alchemy of paper

The doctor told her to “leave art school

It seems from another era – campsites scattered across a golden topography

frollicking together in thatching lines

The process was conceived as an low-cost way to reproduce drawings

let ‘Leaping Cat’ bound into your collection

is a foretelling of good or bad tidings