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Saturday 1 June 2013

out of the fire....

Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire (detail). Burned plywood. 2012


















Out of the fire the wood escapes, scorched but not consumed. Coiling and twisting like a nest of massive snakes, of blind basilisks. Rejecting its fate. Rebellious.


Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire.

Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire (detail).










































While a few years earlier, a fireplace leaks a dark puddle (blue sky reflecting on the surface of the deep). Flames quenched.

Out of the fire, water.


Kate MccGwire. Slick. Mixed media with magpie feathers. 2010






















See more about Kate MccGwire in the following posts: holy waters; collecting as art practice; and the luminescence of the night sky.







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