Moving, tapping, and scraping
Taryn Raffan Taryn Raffan

Moving, tapping, and scraping

Both artists would instinctively commence with either a gesture or movement, tapping, scrapping and/or knocking of a selected rock/s. With only one available pen, one of the artists would commence the mark making which mimicked the movements, sounds and shapes the other was producing with the rocks. Throughout the course of the performance people gathered and watched the performance becoming transfixed by the artists archetypal formula.

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Together, unravelled, and back together again
Taryn Raffan Taryn Raffan

Together, unravelled, and back together again

During the process the two artists express their strong connection to the photographs of the assemblages and how originally the work would become of book of 'drawings'. Now, however, through the deliberate transient process the work has become more about the movement and placement of the drawings and objects together, ultimately producing a unbound/unfixed book of photographs, drawings and assemblages. Representing the essence of how the work commenced, through a culmination of objects, books, paper and rocks. Placed together, unravelled and placed back together again.

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New found beginnings
Taryn Raffan Taryn Raffan

New found beginnings

When the artists felt satisfied with the process they both lay down underneath the branch. Whilst laying underneath the branch they listen to the sound of the crackling leaves in the wind, the changing weather, the rain starting to fall and the odd swamp hen and coot squawking in the background.

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