Micro Climate V

Abstract

Micro Climate V corrugated iron, pastel, rabbit fur and rivets

Wendy Teakel's work explores contemporary landscape through and embrace of Edward Relph's idea of "existential insideness" where one is at home within their surrounds without a sense of self-consciousness. These works are based on the grid and for Teakel the grid translates into boundaries of ownership and inhabiting defined by fence lines and edges of space where management systems and cultural philosophy juxtapose. Her spaces are framed by the latitude and longitude of the mapmaker although she is indifferent to the grid as a means of finding her way precisely. It is more a measure to experience where the act of traversing and being within landscape are paramount. Teakel's work refigures the experience of landscape noting its ever-shifting and dissolving impermanence where space hollows out to be come smoothed and thinned, skinning a tenuous reality between us and emptiness. https://www.art-almanac.com.au/off-grid/