‘Living Arrangement’ is a series of experimental processes with ink and pen.

These works are an attempt at depicting the energy and life-forms found along the foreshore of Gimuy / Cairns, in an evolutionary relationship with the beautiful and impractical Queenslander home. “I am trying to pay tribute to nature’s energetic power as much as convey a visual image, as if seeing energy will ignite a sense of awe and a relationship of mutual influence”. A composite habitat forms and it’s life is recorded like the botanical archive of a new species.

Aerial roots begin with intentional marks. Then watery top layers organically ‘run’ into cross-bracing, joists, pipes and unplanned growths. Improvised ink flow enables a loosening of directive motion, as if freeing up intention might clear the way for nature’s invisible capacities to materialise.

Pen line forms a topographical map of the ink terrain, ‘listening to’ the contours and depth of field. What unfolds is an unpredictable exploration of the effect of overlay, a search for a relationship that is more than the sum of its parts.

Two symbols of shelter combine and develop, becoming a different arrangement. Excessive top growth naturally leads to leak and collapse. Old portions are ingested, new forms appear.

I am trying to pay tribute to nature’s energetic power as much as convey a visual image, as if seeing energy will ignite a sense of awe and a relationship of mutual influence."
Tania Tocar