Axis and Origin
Untitled (My Bed), 2023, oil stick frottage on bedsheet, 190.5 x 138.6 cm
Untitled Trace Series, 2023, graphite trace on butcher's paper, 123 x 102 cm
Untitled Origin Point Series, 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 50 x 50 cm
Untitled (Origin Point no.1, Colombo), 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 25 x 25 cm
Untitled (Origin Point no. 2, Kuala Lumpur), 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 25 x 25 cm
Untitled (Origin Point no. 3, Toronto), 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 25 x 25 cm
Untitled (Origin Point no. 4, New York City), 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 25 x 25 cm
Untitled (Origin Point no. 5, Vienna), 2023, graphite frottage on BFK Rives, 25 x 25 cm
Axis and Origin, 2023, Milani Gallery Brisbane
Documentation by Carl Warner
Axis and Origin is an archive of printed grids and concentric found objects accumulated during travel which engage the conceptual possibilities of pressure and trace to expose the contours of surfaces. Material matrices include ironing boards, manholes, pavements, tram tracks, a bleacher seat, and a bed. Dematerialised and displaced from origin, the works are realised through processes of frottage, tracing, embossing, screen-printing and lithography. Revealing what is known to touch via the aesthetics of pressure and chance suggests an alternative to Modernism’s painterly flatness through the compression of three-dimensional objects into a two-dimensional plane.