Jacqueline Aust – Out of the Blue

Photogravure and relief print
Edition of 30
Image size: 28.5 x 40cm
Paper size: 41 x 51 cm
PCA Print Commission 2014

Bird skeletons are often bleached by the elements, becoming fragile objects outlasting their useful function. Bones speak to us. We respond to them viscerally, as subjects or objects, meanings or matter. This gannet skull has an uneasy ambivalence as a symbol fluttering between life and death, serving to warn against behaviours that reduce our bird species to such remains.