Caveat Collectors
Extinction has claimed nearly fifty per cent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s bird species over the past 650 years. The persistent myth has it that European settlement in the nineteenth century swept away a pristine past. And most obviously, because we know their names and can catalogue (literally) their infamy, that story includes the professional bird collectors as the cause of those extinctions.
Viruses
Jo Dixey, a professional needleworker, made this group of ‘viruses’ during New Zealand’s Alert Level 4 lockdown in the 2020, following the global outbreak of the coronavirus Covid-19. The collection materialises the unseen, and reflects one person’s need to understand the virus through the therapeutic and often compulsive practice of making. Visualising the virus...
Viruses
Jo Dixey, a professional needleworker, made this group of ‘viruses’ during New Zealand’s Alert Level 4 lockdown in the 2020, following the global outbreak of the coronavirus Covid-19. The collection materialises the unseen, and reflects one person’s need to understand the virus through the therapeutic and often compulsive practice of making. Visualising the virus...
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