The Exhibition is open at the Academy Library from 4 June - 1 July, within normal Library hours
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unnamed01 44x28cm (giclee archival prints on acid-free archival bamboo rag)
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unnamed12 21x36cm (type C lambda photographic prints)
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unnamed16 21x36cm (type C lambda photographic prints)
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no need of a name
Mountains have no need of a name. They were raised without names and will dwell long after words have fallen silent. Mountains have no need of a height or location. They settled well before we arrived.
None of these mountains have names, so I beg you not to ask - for there is no answer other than what you choose yourself. Names will never hurt them.
The truth of mountains lies in that which we cannot measure or name. Attempts to measure a mountain are just the strange ways we measure ourselves.
Should we care? Mountains are just the stuff of rocks and sand.
Without mountains we have no way to experience the valleys whose devious rivers move them grain by grain to the sea below. This eternal ritual brings us relief.
To climb mountains is a bizarre pursuit. Climbing has no purpose other than the experience. Its purity is revealed when one reaches the lowlands upon returning from a higher place.
This experience has no need of a name and is something everyone has inside when they let it prosper.
This mountain of work is an expression of that nameless feeling I share with you.
The Journey and 10 Steps to Climb a Mountain (pdf)
Artist Statement and CV (pdf) | Website
Mr David Paterson opens the exhibition
Academy Library Opening Hours:
Mon-Thurs 9am -9pm; Friday 9am-5pm. Saturday - Sunday 1pm-5pm.
For more information contact the Library 02 6268 8116, or email: jc.doyle@adfa.edu.au
