Tears to wake the flowers

Tears to Wake the Flowers Tears cut form a gentleman's handkerchief And placed on the dusty ground ************************************************************************************ Tears to Wake the Flowers 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 like butterflies or flowers onto the desert soil