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My artist talk for Eve of Incarnation is today, Sat 18 Feb, from 130-230pm @blakdotgallery 33 Saxon St Brunswick - Narrm (wheelchair accessible) off Dawson St. I created this series while artist-in-residence at Police Point Shire Park on Boonwurrung country, redressing the ‘nature nude’ and its common form of describing white, feminine fragility. Contemplating connection to a landscape as someone whose ancestry belongs elsewhere, I’ve draped myself in its ‘fabric’ - the indigenous and invasive plant species, seaweeds and rocky crags becoming ‘nature couture’. Resisting ethnographic projections onto my brown-skinned being via allusions to high fashion photography, my soft, scarred and otherwise unkempt body wears unsellable 'garments' that only exist in the photographic moment. These temporal costumes are science-fictional meditations on my transitory contact - and complicated desire to connect - with others’ ancestral land. Image: Agitator, 2016, 597x420mm, pigment ink on archival cotton rag. #washedashore #grounded #coutureashore #rockon #vulnerability #empowerment #femintimidation #selfportrait #photographicportrait #textaqueen #blakdotgallery #artisttalk (at Blak Dot Gallery)

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Eve of Incarnation opens this Thurs Feb 9, 630-830pm + artist talk Sat Feb 18, 130-230pm, @blakdotgallery 33 Saxon St Brunswick - Narrm. Image: 'Sentinel', 2016, 420x597mm, pigment ink on archival cotton rag. #sentinel #branch #burlesque #camouflage #femininitree #feministart #femintimidation #thefemalegaze #boxthorn #burntout #bushfire #alienvisitor #scifi #firedanger #regrowth #treecover #couture #naturecouture #ecofashion #fashionphotography #TextaQueen #artistinresidence #portsea #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry (at Blak Dot Gallery)

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Eve of Incarnation opens @blakdotgallery 33 Saxon St Brunswick Narrm/Melbourne Thurs Feb 9th. Trying to draw on the serenity I magicfested while making these works to work with the fire combusting inside me right now... Serenader #seaspell #serenity #seaserenade #serenadingmyself #serenadingmyancestors #acrosstheoceans #siren #serenader #seawitch #blueskies #brownthighs #brownsighs #sweat #bushfire #bushburlesque #beachburlesque #burlesque #alienvisitor #camoflauge #femintimidation #feministart #indigenousgrass #noplantwasharmed #erodedrock #ecofashion #naturalfibres #coutureashore #naturecouture #selfportrait #TextaQueen #artistinresidence #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry #eveofincarnation #blakdotgallery (at Point Nepean National Park, Victoria, Australia)

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Eve of Incarnation opens Thur Feb 9th @blakdotgallery 33 Saxon St Brunswick Narrm-Melbourne. Trying to draw on the serenity I channeled while making these works to work with the fire combusting inside me right now.... Serenader #seaspell #serenity #serenade #serenadingmyself #serenadingmyancestors #siren #seawitch #sweat #blueskies #bushfire #burlesque #camoflauge #femintimidation #feministart #indigenousgrass #noplantwasharmed #erodedrock #ecofashion #naturalfibres #coutureashore #naturecouture #selfportrait #TextaQueen #artistinresidence #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry #blakdotgallery (at Point Nepean National Park, Victoria, Australia)

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barrier #naturecouture #misty #mystique #melancholia #majesty #melancholicmajesty #majesticmelancholy #weathered #daybreak #vulnerability #empowerment #bark #bodysuit #spottedgums #barrier #bushfireseason #textaqueen #selfportrait #femintimidation #bundanon @bundanontrust #artistinresidence #wodiwodicountry 📸 textaqueen (at Bundanon Trust)

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canopy #naturecouture #bushburlesque #fronds #ferns #undergrowth #beckoningbracken #melancholy #majesty #majesticmelancholy #melancholicmajesty #softness #strength #vulnerability #empowerment #canopy #bushfireseason #textaqueen #selfportrait #femintimidation #bundanon #artistinresidence #wodiwodicountry 📸 textaqueen (at Bundanon)

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posting this right now as a reminder that femininity, emotionality, sexuality and spirituality may be sources of empowerment despite what the white capitalist cisheteropatriarchy tries program #thingsbellhookstaughtme #fullmoonfeelings #joinmycult #seaxuality #spiritualart #feministart #seawitch #scifi #madmax #mermistress #postapocalypse #postcolonial #decolonialdom #femintimidation #sealeather #kelpfetish #mythology #iswamherefromgoa #genderqueer #warrior #marsinthefirsthouse #kelpcouture #coutureashore #ecofashion #TextaQueen detail of #earthwindwaterfire #selfportrait made as #artistinresidence #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry (at Point Nepean National Park, Victoria, Australia)

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earth wind water fire #spiritualart #seawhip #seawitch #seaswitch #seaxuality #superhero #scifi #madmax #mermaid #mermistress #postapocalypse #postcolonial #decolonialdom #femintimidation #sealeather #kelpfetish #joinmycult #channelling #iswamherefromgoa #genderqueer #warrior #marsinthefirsthouse #kelpcouture #coutureashore #ecofashion #selfportrait #TextaQueen from my #artistinresidence earlier this year at #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry but channeling it right now... (at Point Nepean)

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I've been secretively working on some new projects, needing some more private processing of the world we're in. Not ready to share those fruits but meanwhile here's another photo from my residency earlier this year. guardian #selfportrait #femintimidation #feministart #protector #guardian #suspicious #vulnerability #empowerment #naturecouture #coutureashore #ecofashion #TextaQueen #artistinresidence #policepointshirepark #boonwurrungcountry (at Point Nepean)