LANI SELIGMAN
untitled Siev,
from Contain series
2003, type C print, 60
x 70 cm, ed. 3/12
$660 (inc GST)
This photograph is from a series titled Contain which I completed in 2003. A series of landscape images were juxtaposed with a large photograph of an austere shipping container. These works readily invited multiple interpretations and do not have any specific references. However, whilst making the work I was interested in how certain events can penetrate our consciousness and find a photographic form.
In October 2001 a small fishing vessel known as the SIEV X which was headed to Christmas Island sank within Australia’s border protection zone and approximately 146 children, 142 women and 65 men died. There were 44 survivors.
untitled (blast) 2007,
type C print, 60
x 60 cm, ed. 2/12
$660
(inc GST)
This photograph was taken during the process of making work for the show polar in 2007. A single bent tree stands alone braced against an implied force. I like taking photographs of landscapes that do not give a clear indication of their location and suggest a position of anywhereness.
