Timba Bridge (Master of Art) Melting Me, Burning Me (2016) 22 x 22 x 20cm; 22 x 22 x 17cm; 22 x 22 x 5cm Wax and wick, desert sand, ceramic bowl, framed colour photographs. "A residency at Fowlers Gap, a remote sheep station in far west NSW, inspired a series of sculptures which explore the sense of wonder we have about the fleeting nature of life, here one minute, gone the next, we are ashes to ashes, dust to dust. These melts are a shrine to our robust and delicate, continuous and ephemeral, tellurian and transcendent life cycle. As the body dies, it slowly decays, melts away, gets reabsorbed into the earth; what is this transformation all about, what becomes of the energy and soul that inhabited it? We know our time is short, so can we be more present in the here and now? The work represents our dual nature as earth-bound and corporeal, yet spiritual beings. Out in the vastness of the desert, being swallowed up by the land, it simultaneously acknowledges our significance and total insignificance." https://www.instagram.com/fleurtisan/