Hand Picking up the Wishbone One
2021 - marble, travertine, Italian smalti, Mexican smalti - 50cm x 50cm
Hand Picking up the Wishbone Two
2021 - marble, travertine, Italian smalti, Mexican smalti, mirrored glass - 43cm x 49cm
Unswept Floor multi-panel floor installation created by 8 artists - Judith Watson, Christine Nixon, Amanda Tattam, Christine Baines, Ruth Maclaren, Helen Bodycomb, Louise Marson and Rhonda McGuiness.
April 2021
Unswept Floor at the Lot 19 Gallery, Castlemaine was curated by Dr. Helen Bodycomb.
April 2021
Unswept Floor at the Lot 19 Gallery, Castlemaine was curated by Dr. Helen Bodycomb.
THE UNSWEPT FLOOR
2021
The Unswept Floor is a genre of mosaic also known as Asarotos œcos or Asaratos Oikos. The second century BCE Greek mosaicist Sosus of Pergamon is attributed as having been the author of this genre that became popular across the Roman Empire. Depicting food scraps as though strewn across a floor.
This is a more modern interpretation of The Unswept Floor. This group installation was led by mosaic artist Helen Bodycomb and involved seven emerging artists, one being Louise Marson, who contributed two mosaics of hands picking up wishbones from the unswept floor during COVID-19 lockdown restriction in Victoria mostly during 2020.
The artists have created a multi-panel floor installation depicting contemporary domestic foods and objects associated with eating, as if randomly strewn from a dining table.
Photography - Julie Millowick