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Gab Bates, ‘Developer Catcher’ (based on a traditional Voodoo ‘Devil Catcher’), W65cmxD65cmxH80cm, foraged & anointed sticks, bones, beads, coins, Inner West soil, cocain and the spittle of an angry young female artist at a council meeting. Gab Bates, ‘House Protection
In 2014 I embarked on a mission to study and record the enormous amount of change and variety that occurs on a daily basis off the coast of Sydney.
The work is contemplative in exploration of how pervasive and also how desensitising our over-exposure to these images can be.
The centre of all gravity…
The near future.
Geology and alchemy, forging connections between discarded images, fetishising and fictionalising landscapes, proliferating a tangled narrative and the colonisation of images and objects.
Light, movement, colour, line, repetition, optics and illusion.
Death is so hot right now.
Dynamic, nonfigurative, in-camera illusions.
Ancient and modern, serial and fake…