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ARTWORK ID: 6014
CATEGORY: Portraits (a model release form from the subject must be supplied)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The Future Has Ancestry examines lineage as a living continuum, tracing the relationship between inherited memory and contemporary identity through the paired portraiture of an Aeta figure and a Filipina self-portrait. The Aeta, among the earliest Indigenous peoples of the Philippine archipelago, represent an ancestral presence that predates colonisation by millennia, yet one historically marginalised under colonial structures that privileged whiteness and proximity to European ideals.
Rendered in monochrome, the figures are suspended outside temporal specificity, their desaturated bodies functioning as vessels of memory rather than portraits fixed to a singular moment. This treatment positions the human form as both archive and inheritance: a site through which ancestral presence is carried, embodied, and renewed across generations.
Surrounding each figure, dense botanical fields merge Philippine and Pilbara flora, collapsing distinctions between homeland and diaspora while suggesting identity as something both rooted and migratory. Moths native to each region punctuate the composition as emblems of transformation and continuity, invoking cycles of becoming, adaptation, and renewal.
Through mirrored composition and visual resonance, the diptych proposes ancestry not as static origin but as an enduring force in motion; something that persists through blood, memory, and the body, shaping what is yet to come.
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 1200mm x 750mm
WEIGHT (approx): 5kg
ARTIST LOCATION: NICKOL, WA
ARTWORK ID: 6014
CATEGORY: Portraits (a model release form from the subject must be supplied)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The Future Has Ancestry examines lineage as a living continuum, tracing the relationship between inherited memory and contemporary identity through the paired portraiture of an Aeta figure and a Filipina self-portrait. The Aeta, among the earliest Indigenous peoples of the Philippine archipelago, represent an ancestral presence that predates colonisation by millennia, yet one historically marginalised under colonial structures that privileged whiteness and proximity to European ideals.
Rendered in monochrome, the figures are suspended outside temporal specificity, their desaturated bodies functioning as vessels of memory rather than portraits fixed to a singular moment. This treatment positions the human form as both archive and inheritance: a site through which ancestral presence is carried, embodied, and renewed across generations.
Surrounding each figure, dense botanical fields merge Philippine and Pilbara flora, collapsing distinctions between homeland and diaspora while suggesting identity as something both rooted and migratory. Moths native to each region punctuate the composition as emblems of transformation and continuity, invoking cycles of becoming, adaptation, and renewal.
Through mirrored composition and visual resonance, the diptych proposes ancestry not as static origin but as an enduring force in motion; something that persists through blood, memory, and the body, shaping what is yet to come.
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 1200mm x 750mm
WEIGHT (approx): 5kg
ARTIST LOCATION: NICKOL, WA