Grace B. Yap-Kirk
REMEMBERING LOVE
2018
mp4 video
02:52 min
use headphones for bilateral movement soundtrack effect
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”Cherish” exhibition by VISIONARIES
Jul 17 - Aug 14, 2018
Peter W Sheehan Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane
ARTIST STATEMENT
This piece of work is inspired by interpretation of Hansen’s First Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, an imaginative contemplation. It invites viewers to cherish love and gratitude through partnership, family, friendship as well as remembering the marginalised and the forgotten.
Video available upon request.
"I THIRST ... !"
2018
mp4 art video & poetry
00:51 min
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”I Thirst!” exhibition by COSSAG
Jun 2018
Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group, Brisbane
“We are finished!”
Woman declares with a final straw
but lo, He appears
superimposed on Man’s face
gentle heart voice came
“I thirst ... !”
her heart and eyes melt
at His thirst
then her own
and the crown pricks her
once again
ARTIST STATEMENT
Biblical theme of “I thirst” (John 19:28) inspires a story of the other’s inner Christ ever-appealing for love’s mercy, especially when hatred is so well deserved. The call for oneself to die again and again is daunting. Can we rise as Christ to Christ, deep calling to deep and quench His everlasting thirst?
WALLS & STRAWS
2017
digital - words & photography
mp4 photostory video with ebook
05:10 min
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”All are One” exhibition by COSSAG
Jun 2018
Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group, Brisbane
ARTIST STATEMENT
Journey of displacement caused me to contemplate on worldview. My concluding paragraph “Together we hold the earth” especially challenges my view of “oneness with the world.” Using man-made plumbline, “All are One” speaks of celebrating unity and equality despite differences, like a brick wall, which makes me reject the terrorists and Trumps. In reality, Humanity includes these people. The “us versus them” mentality on both sides reflect the way Duality has always played in Oneness. My challenge is to embrace the ‘as-is’, without judgment of good and evil, for All of Humanity are One. Hoseline, not plumbline, is key.