Zina Swanson
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1981
The First Stick I Collected Was a Tree
- 2022
- Acrylic on canvas
- Purchased 2022
- 720 x 520mm
- 2022/071
Tags: black (color), brown (color), paper (fiber product), sticks (object genre), trees
This painting recounts an early foray into collecting, when Zina Swanson salvaged a discarded stick so large it had to be cut into three and reassembled in her studio. In an associated poem, she wrote: Making them part of my life, by making them part of my paintings. Making a special shelf for them in my studio. The collection keeps growing.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
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