Description
Jodi HEFFERNAN
Victoria
Coastal Drift
2024
multiplate etching and embroidery
80 x 65cm
This work represents a deep dive into the subjective experience of place/landscape; a continuation of the artists ongoing exploration of the shades, textures and experience of landscape. Significant lines from an image (a multiplate etching) of landscape are embroidered into the surface of the work, figuring a personalised interaction with and reading of the landscape. This creates a blurring of the line between the personal experience and the figuring of that experience by the space. The work of Jacques Lacan on “the mirror stage” in infant development recalls a similar experience where identity is constructed via an external image. In this case the viewer is invited into a deeper personal interaction with a place/ landscape, a potentially nocturnal experience, a place of dreams and imagination. Ref. “The mirror stage” paper by Jacques Lacan, 1949
