Divest - window installation Fremantle Arts Centre

During my residency with Fremantle Arts Centre this month, I've been developing my Divest beeswax installation project and playing with different ways that this work can inhabit various spaces. I wanted to try and embed the funnels so they grew seamlessly out of the vertical surface of the window, and I found that the warm beeswax is malleable enough to stretch out into a thin marbled, dimpled, translucent membrane. When spread across the diamond grid of the leadlight window, bright sunlight from outside is filtered and softened - almost like being inside a living eggshell. I was equally fascinated by the way that the beeswax membrane peeled off the window like a skin being shed, and the funnels left behind intriguing subtle trace, like ghostly footprints on the old glass surfaces.

Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest - trace, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest - trace, 2014, beeswax installation, FAC studio
Kath Fries, Divest - trace, 2014, beeswax installation , FAC studio