Inspiration

Where My Feet Have Been

Maude Bath and Liz Wauchope recorded the process of developing art works for their joint exhibition at T'Arts Collective, Adelaide, April 2012.

When Maude was looking through her photos to put together a book about her residency in Japan, she noticed that when she looked at images of 'views' her logical brain was engaged. The larger scale made her think about what she was seeing in the context of the event. When she looked at images taken looking down she had a far more emotional response. She felt grounded, looked within and remembered how she felt when the photo was taken.

Looking 'up close and personal' rather than at distant vistas is also a hallmark of Liz's photography. Both women are great travellers, and have been to many of the same places in Australia and overseas. That shared delight in the extraordinary details of new places, and new perspectives on familiar places, is how the exhibition 'Where my Feet Have Been' came about.

'Looking at the cobblestoned road in Arimatsu, Japan, I remembered the feeling of awe and respect and timelessness; all those generations of women working on  Shibori resist-dyed textiles, in the same way with the same patterns and the same fabrics, walking this same road over six hundred years.'



Aramatsu Road Coat

Aramatsu Road

Sketch for Aramatsu Road

'The incense drying in Vietnam made me feel all over again how small and insignificant an individual is. The peace and sense of well-being you feel when you breathe incense came flooding back.'



Sketch for Incense

Incense in Vietnam Top

Incense in Vietnam

'Revisiting the hakea blossom in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs took me straight back to my childhood, evoking a calm sense of belonging to that country.'

Maude and Liz hope that the work they have created will in a small way help you to feel that inner peace and centredness.

Jacket & Camisole

Sketch for Rajisthani Sandstone

Rajisthani Sandstone

 
These are some of the starting images and resulting art works we created, they are taken from the little book we published to accompany the exhibition. The book includes the collaboration process of  design sketches, painting, printing the silks and felting the pieces.  “Where my feet have been” is available from Maude.

Fashion Photography by Malcolm Downes

Modeled by Elsja Stalk