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Objects and Meaning 2006

Artist's Statement

It is part of the human character to want to say ‘I am here!’ We want to make a mark. We want to show our presence in some way.

To me, most things - furniture and objects - have a meaning. They have stories behind them that are part of other people’s expression of ‘I am here.’

I think that is interesting.

I have started a project I call the ‘Treasure Project’. In my mind it is a book with a photo of a drawing on one page, and its’ story on the facing page.

The project is called, ‘Treasure,’ because there is a feeling of exciting discovery, a wealth of stories, layers of ghost people, objects and meaning.

Not all of these drawings are the treasure project. The others are a part of my exaltation of the growing world. Meaning, in the garden, is a bigger thing. How a leaf develops and unfurls is a magic that includes me. Making a drawing of the layers of the petals of a rose is a meditation on the marvellous in the natural world.

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After my grandmother built her rather grand house in Forest Hill, she had a decorator come in and help her with the interior. The house had a definite Spanish flavour, inspired by houses that my grandmother had seen in Panama. Inside, there was a curving staircase, a good deal of wrought iron and stuccoed walls.

The decorator’s name was Minerva Elliot. Even now her name drifts through time to the present in a charmed way, as though her unusual name, Minerva, can somehow work magic. Perhaps it did, because the hallmark of Minerva’s work, to me, is that she painted everything gold. All the lamps from that time - wonderfully carved and turned from wood - were painted gold.

Hallie Watson

Objects and Meaning 2006

Artist's Statement

Standard Lamp February 4 2005

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