2022 Evidence – a stratigraphy
Billabong. 2022
Oil on HIPS metal 112 x 240cm overall (4 x panels 112 x62cm) 2022
Evidence – a stratigraphy, Hayden’s Gallery, Melbourne FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM ........ the cosmic vertigo induced by Eaton’s works’ suggestions of celestial mapping, of asterial location and identification, of coded pinpoints of light from distant worlds. Her third way in to our thoughts is to hook us by our existential anxiety, our primal fears of the predator, of the unknown, of the dark, and of death. As Dan Miller describes These People (2006), Eaton’s work comprises ‘not just a warning, but a distress signal.’[1] She reels us in past galactic clouds and spinning nebulae, past letters and numbers that may or may not have meaning, into a close encounter with the ineffably distant, with the infinitude of space and the relative insignificance of matter, and with our own small, pathetic lives. David Hanson, Evidence - a stratigraphy, essay, exhibition catalogue exerpt. [1] Dan Miller, ‘Steady, and Urgent’, 2018 
Borderlands. 2019
Oil, metal on HIPS, wood 120 x 480cm |
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