Beyond Words

I wish that I had some kind of photo which brought this to completion. Because it is finally completed. I moved out some months ago now, it just took awhile for me to find the space to wade through all these photos and upload them.
The reason I have done this is to bring this period of time to completion. This life. This way of doing things. This art I was making and the processes which I made it in. It is also the end of this blog now.
If I find a photo which fits this, I'll show you.
But for now we have the past fleeting in our hands and all manner of new things to come in this present.

Recently I participated in an international project of weather photo exchange. I was partnered with an artist in Rotterdam, Netherlands who I didnt know, and each day we were required to take a photo of the weather and post it on a blog. I participated from Tuesday 8th of July until Sunday 20th of July while I was doing a residency at the Kings Cottage in Launceton. It was a pretty interesting project, but more than anything alighted new ideas inside me for the possibilities of collaboration.
Weather Photos

Objects of interest in this moving game, its a pity about the branding, i would like the boxes more if they were blank.

(tŷ bâch twt is welsh for cubby house)























I had grand visions for what might have happened at the cubby house party, I envisioned walls made from sheets and cardboard, shadowpuppetry, sleeping on cushions and reading poems, drawing on paper and eating cookies with tiny cups of milk with tea, music and laughter.

When the sunday rolled round and it was time to play I was overwhelmed with the concept of moving house and the mess and boxes reading for packing and all I wanted was a desert. All I wanted was a desert. I wanted nothing in the room. I wanted nothing.

But my most beloveds came ready to play, and it was a beautiful thing to see. People pulled sheets from their neat stacks and hung ties and strings from the rafters, turned chairs and lounges upsidedown, and created a world of shadows and dreams. There were whispers and soundscapes and a subtle feeling of the end.

This grew into an uncomfortable feeling, and a desire for ones own home. There was a feeling of loss and displacement in the air, and a craving for a sense of home. By 10 o'clock everyone had left and gone home. It was a strange party, but as a conceptual art piece it couldn't have been more perfect, and a perfect end to a long artists residency in the warehouse.

It was as if I was moving my friends out, and the space needed to change before I could let go and actually engage with the task of physically moving my belongings out of the house.

I left the house and walked into the street and into the night with a great sense of release in my body.

An exhibition by Noah Symons, Tamara Lunchbox, Oliver Van Der Lugt and Chay-Ya (from top to bottom). The work for this show spurned from the dinner preparations, exhibited on the wall of my kitchen.

Babylon Lexicon is an annual exhibition of artists' books and book inspired art curated by Hot Iron Press. I posted over some of my artists books (from most recent show, a perfect stillness) far over the seas for inclusion in the exhibition (see if you can spot them in the pictures!)

It ran from 10 November - 8 December 2007 at the Goldring Riverview Gallery of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA/RIVERFRONT). My first international exhibition was much easier than I thought it would be, and just cost me the price of a very big stamp. It was really exciting to be apart of this and I recommend checking out the Hot Iron Press website.

It has taken me a little while to get around to posting up all of this older content that has come lately, but we are almost up to the present, and we are always in the present even if reminiscing.

Photography by Max Milne

A few photographs from the show (taken by Lucas Maddock), for more detailed shots of each piece on its own please scroll down futher to older posts. Thankyou to everyone who supported this project, including the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.

Two books were produced as part of the Perfect Stillness exhibition and can be ordered by contacting me at chayya.clancy@gmail.com

Illustrious Botanae
(29 x 35 cm) $95

Artists’ Book, limited edition of 20. Printed on lana dessin 220gsm
drawing paper, sewn together with an antique industrial sewing machine and fabric.
Featuring twelve illustrations of the indigenous plant Gymea (sample above)



A perfect stillness where everything moves catalogue
(14 x 14.5cm) $10

44 page catalogue, produced in a limited edition of 200, printed onto conquerer
laid paper. Featuring photographs of the exhibition, line drawings and text. A part of and an extension from the exhibition.

For closer insight click on any images above that interest you and they will grow in size, making it easier on your eyes.



left
(2.3 x 2.4 metres)

Fabriano Artistico 300gsm hot pressed watercolour paper (Italy), oriental spice and hot ginger acrylic house paint, conte, graphite.

Featuring the silhouettes of Sohi and Claude, bamboo, ferns,
gymea lilies, japonica, protaceae, and birds

click on the image above to make it bigger and more easy to be seen

centre

(1.1 x 2m approx)

Fibre board, orange scent and candelabra acrylic house paint, conte and graphite.

Featuring the silhouettes of Mandy and red parrot tulips

right

(3.2 x 2.4 metres)

Fabriano Artistico 300gsm hot pressed watercolour paper (Italy),

acrylic house paint, conte.

Featuring the silhouettes of Ben

Unrolled, rolling and re rolled up. My work went up on the walls of bus gallery with the help of my most wonderful friend lucas and all the patience that goes along with mounting enormous pieces of paper to a wall. People came to the opening, my little brothers were wearing matching clothing (blue satin vests, white shirts and board shorts - they dressed themselves!), my mum made fruit platters with almonds and cloves and my beloveds brought me flowers plucked and added to the show of drawings, books and dried magnolias.
It was a really beautiful show and thankyou to everyone who came and checked it out, also to all of those who helped put the production together and BUS for having me.

Im going to put up photographs of the show in installments. There were three pieces in the show, A PERFECT STILLNESS WHERE EVERYTHING MOVES which I named LEFT
There were two book works as part of the project, A catalogue named after the show and a book of botanical illustrations of the Gymea Lily titled Illustrious Botanae.

All the work is for sale and books can be ordered. Thankyou.