Lottie van Wijck

At once a performance and installation, a marking and a site-responsive engagement, this project engages with healing, and the material embodiment of trauma. The work employs embodied materiality to explore a physical trace of the Black Saturday bushfires, which passed through my community. My work situates three charred wooden fence posts, abstracted in their charred state, taken from my garden, and repositions them within the gallery space. I allow them to mark the white walls with their charred bodies, leaving a subsidiary meta-trace of the event through movements that are dynamic and insinuate the physical.