Fragments from a myth-carriage

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU ZH-CN AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This work charts dis-figurements of 'the flesh' as it is objectified, denigrated and negated in the process of desiring-and consuming-mythic ideals of beauty and unity achieved through enforced corporeal docility. The thematic myth-carriage finds embodiment in the narrative's miscarriage that leads this work to its dissolution, while it also jettisons the narrative back to its origins in a 'world of repetitious dreams.' The structure of this work alludes to an endless roundelay of destruction and production as a necessary condition for consumerism's obsessive, and seductive, drive towards happiness, wholeness, and hierarchical status. In addition to engaging with critical ideas of production and destruction, as a dynamic flux within consumerism, this work engages the motif of 'Death and the Maiden' through a critical re-vision of the Sleeping Beauty tale-type sutured to a deadened domestic Australian landscape. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}