30 × 30cm

Oil on linen

Unframed

The Ancient singers whose music measures the season

These small paintings in oil depict 3 of our most familiar cicadas -The Green Grocer, Black Prince and the double drummer-Set against patterned wallpapers drawn from Australian domestic imagery.Cicadas are a shared memory of summer: heard before they are seen, their chorus marking heat, time,and place. By pairing these iconic insects with decorative surfaces, I. aimed to explore the intersection of nature and home, where the soundscape of the bush seeps indoors and becomes part of our collective cultural memory;natures own music of summer