Cristina Dawn
Artist Statement
A game of chasing ghosts
The eternal ballet of endurance
Surely enchantment warrants a fail-safe
A comb of evergreen teeth
A smile made for me and deceit
Curved neck
Hollow body
Too open to be close
A heaven suspended, only under tension
Our piano is a music box
A twisted mechanical shrine
We collapse into a cacophony of expiring tongues
All inverted and upset
A threshing machine for a life
Flailing for nourishment
Forever rotating
Always rotting
Momentum unbuilt by hope
Sips of recognition
You leave a stomach empty
Eating its own walls
Condemned to harmonise with discordance
I’ll be unstrung
Decommissioned
But I am not the one out of order
Captive of your coil
I’m towed toward hypnogogic light
An undue magnetism
My spine bleached
Powdered by time again
Your shadow pressing
My psyche sinking
Swallowed backwards
A piercing silence
Waiting to exhale
My green reaper is coming
and I will bleed from sleep
Ru ballett'eterneh peh cappà h ri fantasmeh : The eternal ballet of chasing ghosts
Hinged Square box
100 x 100 x 100mm
Nickel silver walls; inner etched with ghost orchids, outer etched with decaying butterfly wings, blackened brass hinges, Nickel silver pins, Sterling Silver (STG) handles set with deciduous baby teeth (from the mouths of Primavera, Nenella, and myself)
Mentreh tu teh tuorcheh le maneh, I meh neh vayeh al'inferneh : While you wring your hands, I will go to hell
Seven-tiered cylindrical box
90 x 45 x 45mm
Blackened Nickel Silver etched with ghost orchids, bases and inner lid stamped with Boianese text
Mehtá puorkeh machellateh ngoppa nu taulineh di laminexeh : Half a pig butchered on a laminex table
Series of three knives
La sanguehnata: The blood Large knife
330 x 60 x 20mm
Forged nickel steel blade, neem burl handle, Boianese text stamped into wood, Sterling Silver (STG) plate etched with prosciutto marbling
Deh carneh: Of flesh Medium knife
300 x 50 x 20mm
Nickel steel blade, ebony burl handle, Boianese text stamped into wood, Sterling Silver (STG) plate etched with prosciutto marbling
La noia : The nuisance Small knife
270 x 40 x 20mm
Nickel steel blade, tamarind handle, Boianese text stamped into wood, Sterling Silver (STG) plate etched with prosciutto marbling