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Little bony haunches, little skinny tail, the old man is still purring
Dear Omar, you sixteen-year-old (and counting) marvellous whiskered one
![Animating wombats with a head duck. (A Northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) within ‘Ripples in the Open’. Our #landscape is assembled chiefly from representations of #nature rather than actual nature, and all of the animals can easily be removed. With the exception of a white-winged moth, if you were to remove the 10 lenticular prints, there would be no fauna in the scene. Our animated fauna is composed entirely from specimens within Museum Victoria’s collection. One, two, three, their wombat [C 6230] moves.)
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Please join us to declare ‘Ripples in the Open’ officially open.
Thursday the 15th of November, 6–8pm (with an informal talk by us, making like a “slash of light, then gone”(Ruth Padel)).
#collage
#wombat
#lenticular
#artsinmaroondah
#RipplesintheOpen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/512702e1e4b08376dc01a7bf/59018a2e6b8f5b87031359da/5bed20a336beeea793517cae/1542267058719/)
![Scenes from yesterday, as the #animals floated into their positions, and the suggestion of a porthole through the gallery wall was created. Here you can see a hint of Potorous tridactylus (Long-nosed potoroo [C 6177]), Aptenodytes forsteri (Emperor penguin [B 21000]), Lasiorhinus krefftii (Northern hairy-nosed wombat [C 6230]), Panthera onca (Jaguar [C 27448]), and Anas superciliosa rogersi (Pacific black duck [B 21681]). And today, sound was layered. Listen closely when you visit and you will hear a wildebeest munching and an electronic mouse squeaking. ‘Ripples in the Open’ is now open. At ArtSpace Ream, Ringwood. Until the 27th of January, 2019.
#install
#collage
#landscape
#artsinmaroondah
#RipplesintheOpen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/512702e1e4b08376dc01a7bf/59018a2e6b8f5b87031359da/5beab59756535d0202b3ed9c/1542108572676/)
![Lycaon pictus (African wild dog [C 30350]) and Ursus maritimus (Polar bear [C 38090]), the first animals to be placed within ‘Ripples in the Open’. One, hiding in a mountain of still-life tulips, and the other with their background ruins lining up with the brown underside of a giant lily pad. 🌎
And, as you now walk through ‘Ripples in the Open’, .... you will see floating into frame, like bubbles, 10 taxidermied specimens that are suspended inside #lenticular orbs in representation of each animal’s particular #umwelt or individually perceived world.
#install
#collage
#polarbear
#perception
#Africanwilddog
#artsinmaroondah
#RipplesintheOpen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/512702e1e4b08376dc01a7bf/59018a2e6b8f5b87031359da/5beab59756535d0202b3ed9d/1542108571924/)
