"It
will be interesting to me to see what comes out of this day for all
the artists. They have all reported enjoying the process very much
and the experience of collaborating, not only with practical making
but with the ideas that we shared before the event. One of the nets
is a slightly stiffer texture than it originally was. We starched
one of them and made a chair out of it. Despite several washes, a
very small amount of the starch remained. I agonized as to whether
I should keep washing, at risk of the net disintegrating, and decided
that the very slight change in texture is all part of the process..."
Marg Edgecombe, Adelaide
The nets reminded Niki Sperou of her weddding dress. Her father, a
fisherman, died when she was two years old. On Niki's wedding night,
she discovered that her mother, who used to make fishing nets for
her husband, had attached a small piece of net inside her dress.
Mel Curtiss used the nets as personal architecture, Marg Edgecombe
made sample nets for us to play and began to make a net suit. Lucy
Thurley experimented with a net out of paper and wire. Susie Fraser
is a performance artist. She explored many different movements of
the nets and devised games to capture people with the nets.
Hans Kreiner created his own web for the journal.
Playing with the idea of a builder's line, we made drawings with the
nets. Builders often make a straight line by chalking up a string
and
pinging it onto the ground. We used chalk and also dust from Lawrence's
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