Seeing Silence Is No Refuge come to life is like watching a version of my life-as-a-film being screened in reverse… or perhaps dancing in a tango with myself: 6 steps backwards and 6 steps forward.
Witnessing one’s past unspooling, is frightening because it tells you how unstable memory is… it wasn’t until the archive at Monash University spilled out that I understood how much I had forgotten, much which in turn throws a shadow across the present: if I’d forgotten so much about the work I’d made how much of my-life-in-the-world would I also be forgetting?
So this retrospective of my bookwork is a confirmation: gathering is indeed another way of thinking.
The presentation of this work is faultless and assured, while beneath its surface my little duck feet are working frantically – as I continue to be amazed at watching bits & pieces, of me becoming me.
Silence Is No Refuge is currently showing at the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University Library, Clayton, Melbourne.
