feeling felt = a touch too much
Specifications
feeling felt = a touch too much is made of felt on wood, felt appliqué on felt with rubber cushioning, watercolour and lead pencil on paper. Built components made by Gail Hastings.
The work comprises two components with an individual measurement of 80 cm high x 60 cm wide and 53 cm deep for the chair that sits alongside the watercolour fixed on the wall.
| 15/10/1992 | Octopus, University of South Australia (cur. Gary Wilson), Adelaide |
Bibliography
Barnes Carolyn,
‘The Identity of Art’,
in Gary Wilson (ed.),
Octopus,
exhibition catalogue,
University of South Australia,
Adelaide
1992.
Hastings Gail,
‘Feeling Felt’,
[artwork notes],
Melbourne
1992.
Excerpt
Something that says silence: like the return of a thought telling a story long forgotten, not in words but in feelings. The feelings say nothing — but mean much about ‘now’ because of ‘then’.
Holdingsfeeling felt = a touch too much is unavailable. As of 1995, the artwork no longer exists.
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I acknowledge the Kulin Nation’s Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung people as custodians of the lands, waterways and skies where I live and work. I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise their cultural faithfulness, strength and resilience against the trauma of colonisation. First Peoples’ sovereignty has never been ceded.
Gail Hastings