The Nympheas: re-traced re-membered; as lived encounter

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Claude Monet's (1840-1926) Nympheas (1914-26), are a construct of complex interrelationships between immersion in image and site, memory and shifting geographies. They provide a platform for opening interpretations of immersive Australian landscape experiences pivoting around private territories and 'lived' sensory readings of site. While much scholarship has been directed toward Monet and the Modernist surface as Abstraction; this research returns to a fundamental, a critical friction that the images are of landscape. Both image and landscape become sites which are dismantled through drawing and painting as process, in order to be re - membered within a formalist and psychological construct. This is achieved by re opening the ground using the surface as a site for notations of my lived experiences in landscape. Through such perceptive and immersive experiences my research becomes a location for deceleration; a 'slowing down' and facilitate ways of knowing a landscape. My research aims to fracture Claude Monet's legacy into a renewed context framed around ritual practices and immersive lived encounters of landscape.
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2015
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