TOP ARTS
VCE 2007
27 March to 9 June 2008
Admission free
Harry Aitken
Trinity Grammar School, Kew
Harry Aitken
Entre chien et loup 2007
inkjet print
47.0 x 31.5 cm (image)
Trinity Grammar School, Kew
This series focuses on what the French call entre chien et loup (literally: between dog and wolf). This is twilight, a time where light itself transforms. The sky turns a vivid blue as light fades. Street lights illuminate the landscape in an eerie glow. Menacing shadows expand into every crevice. It is the time between night and day. It is neither one nor the other. This period fascinated me immensely. I experimented by placing somnambulistic figures in suburban scenes and by erasing identity with various masks – trapping them between one day and the next.
Entre chien et loup 2007
inkjet print
47.0 x 31.5 cm (image)
Trinity Grammar School, Kew
This series focuses on what the French call entre chien et loup (literally: between dog and wolf). This is twilight, a time where light itself transforms. The sky turns a vivid blue as light fades. Street lights illuminate the landscape in an eerie glow. Menacing shadows expand into every crevice. It is the time between night and day. It is neither one nor the other. This period fascinated me immensely. I experimented by placing somnambulistic figures in suburban scenes and by erasing identity with various masks – trapping them between one day and the next.
