Snow Drift

The premise for this curated exhibition was to reinterpret the historic 19th century French Salon in order to demonstrate and contextualize the complexity and diversity of contemporary art. The exhibition included many local, national and international contemporary artists who have contributed to PICA's renowned exhibition history over 24 years. Weaver's collage based work was selected for this exhibition, recognized for its innovative use of this medium. One that in recent years has had a resurgence of interest (as evident in the ACCA International collage exhibition 'In the Cut' 2013). Snow Drift, is a work created using a complex range of techniques and processes. Japanese paper, hand painted with a variety of aqueous media and pigments, has been subsequently cut into thousands of small circles and then reassembled, sewn together with cotton thread and glued across a paper support. This work explores chaos in nature; intriguing forms and 'magical' ephemeral moments witnessed in the natural world, such as the cascades of quivering birch tree catkins blown into spider webs, and specks of dirt scattered in snow drifts and on an expanded scale, natural disasters including Japan's recent Tsunami. Chance and ordered structures relating to painting, shallow relief, colours and formations approximate those found in the natural world. The paper circles cast shadows, camouflage surface, tremble and erupt. Referencing in part, early 1960's Yayoi Kusama works on paper, the complex arrangements of these simple materials suggest continued growth into infinity.