Helen Johnson
Becoming What You Always Were, 2019
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
198 x 137 cm
78 x 54 in
78 x 54 in
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This work layers imagery that is connected by the idea of becoming as something encoded in one's being - in some sense a celebration of giving oneself over to larger...
This work layers imagery that is connected by the idea of becoming as something encoded in one's being - in some sense a celebration of giving oneself over to larger processes. Beneath the nursing mother, a figure of both nurture and exhaustion, grandiose caterpillars pupate to emerge as softly-hued moths; the Melbourne Anarchist Club, a long time stronghold, stands its ground as it is squeezed between newly developed bourgeois apartments; and a woman undergoes psychoanalysis, a process of examining your own unconscious in an effort to understand who it is that you actually are in the world.