Confetti on the sand

Confetti on the Sand She arrived in Perth from England Where she sat and touched the sand And wondered if she's found Prince Charming Within the golden land So cutting petals from her dress She placed them in her hand And with a gesture bold and free Threw confetti on the land ************************************************************************************ Confetti on the Sand is part of a body of work created while a Visual Arts Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Knowing little about Australia in general, and Western Australia in particular I started in the library where I quickly learned of the title 'The Cinderella State'. Soon I was journeying, like an early settler, eats and north-eats, beyond Kalgoorlie to Kanowna and up to Day Dawn and Cue. I personally recreated the colonising move inland. To Epitomise the sense of Cinderella in this strange land of promise and melancholy I made exquisite dresses, pierced and cut so that fragments fall onto the desert sand. Photographing myself in these garments, I provided a summary in an artist's book and displayed the finely made originals in the appropriately heritage building of the Arts Centre Fremantle. In a review by Robert Cook, he states: 'The visitors' book indicated that there had been many gallerygoers who had connected immediately with the show's gentle creation of a language appropriate to the ideas.' The Western Australian Today, Wed 12 May 1999.