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ARTWORK ID: 3060
CATEGORY: Open Theme
ARTIST STATEMENT:
As an intuitive, organic, process-led maker, Leeming leads with silent reflection through the form of 'free verse' poetry, a stream of conscious reflecting her inner dialogue around belonging, loss and connection to home. She says silence, in some way, is as important as the work. Her actions of walking, meditating, praying, and listening feed like an umbilical cord connecting her internal landscapes, those memories that reside in a place beyond awareness to her external work. Leeming sits in the here and now, in the land of the living, this place she now calls home.
Leeming's free verse poetry is based on Hikoi, a Māori word and concept that carries deep cultural resonance meaning to walk or journey. In this way, Leeming intentions are to embody not just a physical act but a spiritual or emotional passage - a movement through life, grief, and hope. Leeming's work affirms a beautiful sadness in the acceptance of loss, as she endeavours to discover the eternal realities of loving with a whole-hearted love as a journey toward an inevitable separation. She says there is no avoiding this final farewell, whether that be loved ones or country, imagined futures and passions, it is a place we must all pass through. And as we bravely respond to the call of life... to move forward, we must do so with hope and faith in our hearts...to walk on. HIKOI
Resting eyes
On hopes horizon
Breathing deeply
Living lighter
Inward gazing
Memories blazing
Sounds of life echo
In the shadows no more
HIKOI
MEDIUM: Oil, ink, cold wax on wood panel
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 100mm x 100mm
WEIGHT (approx): 6kg
ARTIST LOCATION: BYFORD, WA
ARTWORK ID: 3060
CATEGORY: Open Theme
ARTIST STATEMENT:
As an intuitive, organic, process-led maker, Leeming leads with silent reflection through the form of 'free verse' poetry, a stream of conscious reflecting her inner dialogue around belonging, loss and connection to home. She says silence, in some way, is as important as the work. Her actions of walking, meditating, praying, and listening feed like an umbilical cord connecting her internal landscapes, those memories that reside in a place beyond awareness to her external work. Leeming sits in the here and now, in the land of the living, this place she now calls home.
Leeming's free verse poetry is based on Hikoi, a Māori word and concept that carries deep cultural resonance meaning to walk or journey. In this way, Leeming intentions are to embody not just a physical act but a spiritual or emotional passage - a movement through life, grief, and hope. Leeming's work affirms a beautiful sadness in the acceptance of loss, as she endeavours to discover the eternal realities of loving with a whole-hearted love as a journey toward an inevitable separation. She says there is no avoiding this final farewell, whether that be loved ones or country, imagined futures and passions, it is a place we must all pass through. And as we bravely respond to the call of life... to move forward, we must do so with hope and faith in our hearts...to walk on. HIKOI
Resting eyes
On hopes horizon
Breathing deeply
Living lighter
Inward gazing
Memories blazing
Sounds of life echo
In the shadows no more
HIKOI
MEDIUM: Oil, ink, cold wax on wood panel
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 100mm x 100mm
WEIGHT (approx): 6kg
ARTIST LOCATION: BYFORD, WA