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“I am between two worlds. In one, I can see humans are crawling on the brown earth, butterflies are communicating with humans. Seeds are growing above the ground as well as underground. To me, trees are more valuable than diamonds. In my world, I float amongst the clouds, smell flowers, and swim underwater like a squid. I am free, and I am not ‘earth bound’. I am not heavy-footed and I don’t need to be always standing upright. I am at one with the weather. I see people communicating with flowers and bees, and flowers and bees communicating right back. I see pigs in all their size and pinkness walking around us. In this world, humans and non-humans co-exist rather than have a hierarchical existence. Humans are no longer at the top of the chain.
In this other world, it is bleak and dark. Flowers, petals and bees are imaginative things. We are now completely covered up as the air is toxic. I look up, and the sky is always dark, and the light is always artificial.” Susan Bruce

Nature and Consciousness

Until August 27, 2022

The Main Gallery

Location: 156 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Featuring: Susan Bruce, Deborah Sleeman, Fran Callen, John Foubister, Lee Salomone, Maarten Daudeij, Sonagli Patel and Sue Michael.

Curated by Sarah Northcott