Lynette Wallworth work “Evolution of Fear” is a series of interactive installations that respond to touch.
Wallworths work practice spans from video installation, photography and short film. Her work touches on human relationships with nature, how we become who we are and how we can re-make ourselves by our actions.
This work (exhibition) “Evolution of Fear” is a tribute to woman who have survived war, concentration camps, and other extreme actions of violence. It deals with loss, impact of war, survival and new beginnings.
The picture you see here is of a woman in the Abhaya Mudru, symbolic or ritual gesture. Abhaya meaning “fearlessness” and Abhaya Mudru symbolisies protection, peace and dispelling fear. The gesture its self is a raised right hand to shoulder height, arm bent and palm facing out.
To me this work seem to suggest that we as individuals, people have the power to make and do what we want with each situation, how to over come and get through hard time, re-birth our self with a new way of thinking or living, like starting a new life in Australia like the woman in this exhibition have.
Humanism is a system of thought concerned with human affairs and ethics, pro-motion of human welfare. (Oxford dictionary)
I think Wallworth’s works has offered us an idea of humanism, making us think more about our actions, that we can protect, create peace. “Finding a way to be stronger and to deflect the unforgiving elements encountered daily”.
Wallworths work practice spans from video installation, photography and short film. Her work touches on human relationships with nature, how we become who we are and how we can re-make ourselves by our actions.
This work (exhibition) “Evolution of Fear” is a tribute to woman who have survived war, concentration camps, and other extreme actions of violence. It deals with loss, impact of war, survival and new beginnings.
The picture you see here is of a woman in the Abhaya Mudru, symbolic or ritual gesture. Abhaya meaning “fearlessness” and Abhaya Mudru symbolisies protection, peace and dispelling fear. The gesture its self is a raised right hand to shoulder height, arm bent and palm facing out.
To me this work seem to suggest that we as individuals, people have the power to make and do what we want with each situation, how to over come and get through hard time, re-birth our self with a new way of thinking or living, like starting a new life in Australia like the woman in this exhibition have.
Humanism is a system of thought concerned with human affairs and ethics, pro-motion of human welfare. (Oxford dictionary)
I think Wallworth’s works has offered us an idea of humanism, making us think more about our actions, that we can protect, create peace. “Finding a way to be stronger and to deflect the unforgiving elements encountered daily”.
