Jeorja Duffy

Still the after

Bachelor of Visual Arts Craft Sculpture Craft Material Thinking Sustainability
AD23 Award
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Awards
For excellent performance

Still the after is a temporary installation of rope and string accompanied by provisional tools. The material is crocheted, knotted, and tangled into forms that challenge its practicality. My intuition as a guide, I utilise the material and project my perceptual relationship onto the surface of space for my gestures and lines.

By doing so, Still the after, explores the action of perception; calling to engage the eye with the happenings in the space you perceive. Still the after, treats perception as an experience and event. As a perceptual environment, I immerse the observer into the physical energy belonging to the installation— as it goes through a cycle of changes. Together the surfaces and forms contribute to the medium of the installation.

Still the after is an iteration informed by the cycle of expansion and contraction belonging to my practice. Expansion of the forms, space, and body, to the contraction of all, becoming the after of my labour.