Perdita Phillips is an Australian artist who works across all different media. Her works range in form from installation, environmental, sound, sculpture, photography and drawing. Despite the disparate list of media, all of her work addresses sustainability and environmental concepts. Like Steve Peters, who I wrote about in last weeks blog, Phillips work is environmental in concept because it encourages us to see the mundane. To see the things we overlook.
Her piece Pasture. Synechdoche. This piece consists of glass structures, such as were used by Pasteur in his biological experiments proving the microbial origins of decay, and placed inside are images, mostly postcards, from the 50s and 60s. This juxtaposition of recognizable imagery asks us so reconsider them. By placing the commercial images in the glass for display, we are encouraged to take an anthropological view of the things they depict. The images selected for this project were mostly images of nature in the United States, or the highway system. Placing images of nature in a scientific container associated with decay suggests quite clearly that our natural environment is suffering. The other images selected, the highway system, tells us the origin of that suffering: unsustainable industrialization.
This is just one example of Phillips work on environmentalism. Check out her website for more.
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