Rhonda Pryor

Myths and Legends 3, 2022

129 × 125 × 5 cm Oil on linen, reclaimed floor boards, plant-dyed silk organza

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A memory represents connections between place, time and human presence. The painting in this work represents the coastal site that, for many reasons, holds an almost mythical sacredness for our family. The old floorboards speak to the absent shack that once stood, overlooking the Coral Sea. The draped silk (patterned by seaweed pearls and coloured by eucalypt and fern leaves) references this location, and the traces of human presence that lived, breathed and died within its walls, particularly the robust but exotic feminine power still lingering here and in our memories.