The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2006

Jessica Morrison

Artist statement

In the past the Field trip series has been about the exploration of vitality and energy in nature. Field trip ‘… very Emily Dickinson …’ follows this emotional response, but it is now the beginning of decay and the impermanence of nature that is depicted. By contrasting the perishable delicacy of the subject and the rigidity and strength of the silver in which it is captured, the piece attempts to ‘snapshot’ a moment in time; the ephemeral becomes permanent, glazed in a brittle layer of enamel.