'The Waiting Room' by Megan Williams is part of the Through Space and Time exhibition.
Through Space and Time is a group exhibition by the artists of Arts Access Victoria’s Future Reset – Maker Space program.
Link to the online gallery: [ Ссылка ]
Audio Descriptions by Vitae Veritas.
Future Reset – Maker Space is in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne and City of Melbourne’s SIGNAL program and supported by the Victorian Government through Engage! and VicHealth.
Transcript:
‘The Waiting Room’ is a collage on paper, in landscape orientation 42 centimetres wide by 29.7 centimetres high by Megan Williams.
‘The Waiting Room’ is one of five collages exhibited by the artist, composed of a variety of images cut out from printed magazines, newspapers, and books, that have been artistically arranged and then glued onto parchment paper.
The parchment, rough around the edges, appears to have been hand made with recycled paper that is mainly white pressed with fragments of pastel-coloured pulp throughout, giving it a textured, or mottled look.
The artist’s signature is in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
From their artistic statement Williams says: “I consider collage itself to be a kind of disabled medium: unmaking and remaking, transformation, adaption, limitation, unexpected outcomes. I am inspired and emboldened by radical disability theory and my own search for disabled joy.
In these works, I am exploring the way my body-mind changes my relationship to the world – through crip time and crip space…My life is a kind of permanent liminal space, a sort of unreality. Time too feels altered, no longer linear. I exist in a permanent state of waiting; for the end of a flare, a doctor’s appointment, a cure.”
Central in the collage, and largest of all the images, is a man lying on a bed of nails, their head towards the right, leaning on a wooden bedhead. He wears a white loin cloth that contrasts with his dark toned skin. His right knee is propped up, and the hand resting upon it holds a string of beads. His other hand holds an open, brown-covered book as he gazes out to the viewer. By his side, sitting on the bed, is a plush toy teddy bear. He is surrounded by an assortment of 30-40 individually cut out smaller images.
Below the bed, on a small piece of torn paper is handwritten text in blue that reads "why is it", no question mark.
Below this, underneath the bed, from right to left is a silver fob watch, a pair of glasses, a goldfish, a large spoon with red rubies that have been poured from a glass bottle containing white pills that has a green caterpillar crawling on top…. a red hand holding a thermometer, a horizontally levitating woman, near a magician who stands with outstretched arms casting magic.
Continuing clockwise from the foot of the bed is a scrap book, titled as such, a hibiscus flower, a black pigeon with a label across their beak, with text that reads: “you walk funny”; a sunflower, an illustrative skull peeking through blue fungi, a zebra, a female-presenting scientist in white lab coat pouring liquid from a test tube into a beaker, and behind them an old SLR camera, and a large black outline of a tall human figure.
Behind the bedhead on the right is an anatomical model of a human skeleton, two cacti’s in two pots, and finally a long-eared hare standing on their hind legs holding a potted plant.
This audio description has been written by Rachel Edward from Vitae Veritas.
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