To live deliberately
photographic print of site based installation
2020
Dave Laslett and Kasia Tons
Nestled between wrapping spinifex, enveloped by opposing elements, a vibrant lone artist sits transfixed, all consumed, by a paramount process of discovery and determined expression.
The reality of the regional artist is often filled with traps and pitfalls, coupled with oppressive waves of non-additive elements of distraction, and yet within all of this a quiet calmness remains as the artist searches fervently for pathways and opportunities.
To have arrived at this point of stillness, focus and creation, a plethora of obstacles have needed to be overcome on a regular basis; financial sustainability, access to goods and services and living face to face with the ever-changing weather.
Out of this existence, a resilient fortitude is born, enabling the creation of pathways toward Nietzsche’s true worlds. The ability to live within these worlds, requires a deep focus while nurturing an undiluted practice from external noise and distractions of the external fast-paced world.
Throughout the process the figure itself begins to wear the mark of a regional artist, the red dust a mark of endurance, reinforcing the process and the practice instinctively.
— Dave Laslett and Kasia Tons
Daffodil 2019/20
animation: Jonathan Daw
sound: Jeremy Conlon
characters and set: Kasia Tons