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MARLAINA READ


Fish wife
Seal project
Marrying the baltic sea
Shrouding
I forgive you
A forest
Death notes
Ghost net
Industry
Song of sibyls
Descent
Chora
Trust
Drift
Tide work
This is spiritual and physical
To port
Furious devotion
Monuments to decay
Too young too light to work
Prophetess mountain
A place prepared for sleep

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A forest

2019
Chromogenic prints from negative, paint. Fabric dyed with moss, herbs, leaves and bark. Wood frame. Icelandic wool.
Exhibited at Kiosk Project Spoace, Nida, Lithuania, 2019.

I am trying to make sense of a forest. Not a particular forest, but an idea of a forest. I want to make a monument to a forest, with hidden symbols, colours, smells. I started with an image of a dust of snow on a tree. The snow is impermanent. Like a forest. Like any language I use to describe it. A forest is vast. My monument is simple, contained. Personal. Domestic. A forest is contained. I am vast.


Installation images by Julija Navarskaitė.