Aura Valerie Wright-Willemsen
Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus
The Wreck of Hope (after Friedrich): Dissolving landscape; Artifice; Artefact
Documented Forms
Influenced by Romantic ideals, my body of work subverts historical perceptions of the divine natural landscape to express a contemporary view of the consequences of our consumerist society on nature subsequent to the Industrial Revolution. In my work, natural elements are constrained by humanity’s artificial creations. Through the use of synthetic materials and the inherent deconstruction and reconstruction of collage my intent was to reveal the reality of contemporary nature, where plastic waste and landfill have tarnished the grandeur of the divine landscape. What humans once sought to conquer is now destroyed.