Subversion for Tracey Tawhiao

Art has us looking at the subversion in Tracey's work. There was also the slight task of trying to apply it to a painting of our own creation.

In this painting one can see a lot of fish showing in various patterned styles possibly hinting toward an idea of various types of fish.

Some of the fish appear incomplete like they've been planned but not finished. It could be gesturing to the uncertainty of what we don't know about what lives down in the depths of trenches.

Most of the picture seems to have dark tones but then there's the orange square near the middle of the picture.

It has some of the fish with the look of rope on their tails, probably to look at fishing or overfishing, or maybe even plastic waste polluting the ocean.

The possibility is that she is saying people rely on the ocean too much.

Here is a painting I did from the inspiration of Tracey Tawhiao:

This painting was done in the idea of trees and their support to certain ecosystems.

The brown drabness of the left of the painting is to show the boring effects of a lack of trees and birds.

The cut down trees are to highlight the fact that a bird will nest in a tree and will eat worms and feed them to their young. With the broken egg there is the knowledge that there will be less birds to be feed or to feed.

With less birds eating the worms the worms can increase in population and damage the ecosystem.

The bird next to the standing tree s and the potted plant tree is to say: they could have cut down that tree but they cut down the one with the egg.