Artwork media: Poetry, light & aluminium
Louise Monday is an artist and librarian living in Boorloo, Perth. Her practice explores how language conveys meaning and holds power to connect us to our histories, potential futures and each other.
Upon entering via Kent Street, Monday’s artwork can be seen in the form of large neon words, a light installation. The work encourages viewers to foster connection with the now, reflect upon our interdependent relationships and experience moments.
So where did this poem come from? The lines are a collection of words created from Monday’s practice of Redacted Poetry and in collaboration with local community. Employing items that would have otherwise been destined for landfill, Monday explains “we remove the pages of damaged books, we get big, dark markers, and selectively reduce the words on the page, and what is left is a redacted poem.”
Her poem speaks to coming together, being in a familiar place while thinking about the possibilities for tomorrow; Together We Find, Familiar Delight, Different Tomorrow.
This original, striking addition to the high street is a celebration of how “Art is so innate in who we are as humans, our spaces change the story of where we are”.
