the poetry of object

“poetry speaks the unspoken, seeks to make the intangible tangible”

indigo eli (with(in)side) out – poetic fortunes with artwork ‘records of translation’ by Devon Ward, for Kiss Club, CIA studios 2015

artwork: luxury, gilt framed cashmere tampon, indigo eli 2016

apology .. a full image of the work .. a thin vase of flowers sits to the right of frame on a black surface in front of a white textured wall ... the wooden vase, a repurposed industrial bobbin, has a short conical base that straightens into a tall thin cylinder with notches up its spine .. a tag, thin and rectangular, with a hole punched in one end, is tied to the vase by twine, on it, some indistinguishable text ... at the top of the vase, long thin wire stems fan out to hold a bunch of paper flowers folded from book pages. From right to left their faces point out toward the viewer . point up . tilt to one side, to the other . face the viewer ... the three on the very left tilt face down on slightly curved stems ... some flowers have round blue fabric buttons at their centre .. some have a hint of red thread instead ... on the wall behind are shadows of the flowers .. organic blobs form a loose arrow shape near the base of the work .. shifting into star-like shapes at the top

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

artwork: luxury, cashmere tampons, indigo eli 2016

artwork: remembering, photo: royce kurmelovs

blanket silence (detail), indigo eli

artwork: leaving, photo: indigo eli

blanket silence .. a black and white image of the artwork displayed outstretched upon a white wall ... a grey woollen face mask has white gauze ties, 2 pulled to each side held by a pair of surgical scissors .. the gauze ties then drape from the scissors grip ... the mask has black text on the front .. [sic] in large letters .. with some smaller indistinguishable letters in between ... pale threads of various lengths drape down from where the ties have been hand-sewn to the side of the mask .. the four fabric ties are each greyed near the mask .. from text perhaps?

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

letter no. 18, enveloping (the human) connection (in 36.5 letters)

artwork: blanket silence, indigo eli, 2015

luxury artwork .. a close up shot of indigo holding 5 pieces within the soft stretch of her left hand ... she is wearing a black jumper pulled up at the forearms ... on her index finger is a thin silver ring with a silver bauble .. a wrapped threaded bracelet adorns her left wrist with hues of blue white red and gold .. a tartan scarf . dark blue and grey with red highlights . hangs into the shot from her neck ... her right arm is blurred from movement, reaching toward something out of shot ... the 5 works in her hand are small satin purses in ballet slipper pink, made from woollen blanket edging .. draping from some of the purses are doubled white threads

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

in.definite, artwork detail

letter no 13 Noted Festival Postal Project indigo eli 2016

sound egg, indigo eli: a process in development, a development in process, 2012, photo: royce kurmelovs

artwork: apology (detail), indigo eli 2016

threads of industry artworks, indigo eli

burning silence .. feature image of the charcoal filter on a piece of cream linen . the mask’s wavy red ric rac ties flow across the base of the image from left to right .. slowly blurring as they go ... the filter, sits upright in full focus .. it has a tailor made shape . rectangular . but clipped and curved at the edges . made to fit neatly within the mask .. its main body is formed from non-woven polypropylene fabric reclaimed from a wound dressing .. its sides are crimped and melted shut .. white and cream threads drape from the stitches in its sides ... its body . though white . is darkened by its filling . charcoal . black cinders from a property lost in the black summer bushfires .. the filter's main body is dressed . covered by a thin delicate protective paper sleeve .. its corners each shaped by a run of 5 cream stitches .. this paper joins and is stitched closed front and centre .. one end folds open and is held that way by three red wool symbolic stitches and a draping thread to honour the 33 people directly lost to the fires: x x x...

poetry magnets indigo eli 7 designs

everything is connected feathers website image

Black Jack, playing card poetry, Subtext exhibition, SA Writers Centre, photo: indigo eli

(with(in)side) out chapbook. Writ Poetry and Music Night, Paper Mountain. photo: Amber Bateup

poetic fortunes, indigo eli

artwork: luxury, cashmere tampons, indigo eli 2016

‘it’s the small things’, poetic street art installation, indigo eli, 2011

artwork: Child Protection. Act. (detail)indigo eli 2016

everything is transient, stitched words on paper bag, indigo eli, 2011

letter no. 29, enveloping (the human) connection (in 36.5 letters)

artwork: apology, indigo eli 2016

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

child protection artwork broken headless doll

artwork: leaving, photo: royce kurmelovs

letter no 1 Noted Postal Project indigo eli 2016

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

dust jacket artwork .. a full image of the work .. a book sits on a wooden book stand on a black surface in front of a white textured wall ... the wooden stand has a mid-range stain, slightly rounded legs and the book rests upon two wooden circles affixed to its front ... the book has been covered with grey woollen fabric ... on the front of this handstitched dust jacket, the word unpublished is stitched in red thread .. the ‘un’ is underlined .. the ‘published’ is covered by a horizontal red stitched cross

luxury artwork detail ... pink satin purses lay on cream-white linen .. in the back right, out of focus, is a textured gold edged frame containing a drape of white thread .. two purses sit next to the frame on the left also blurred by the cameras focus .. towards the front of the shot 3 purses lay open .. their contents spilling out .. fluffy creamy-white woollen tampons with gleaming white strings

shadow box, indigo eli, 2013

letter no. 29, enveloping (the human) connection (in 36.5 letters)

Postal Project invitation. Can’t make it to Noted but want a piece, a sense, a souvenir? Are you feeling a little isolated – geographically or otherwise? Do you seek connective threads? Do you love snail mail, pine after pigeon post, miss the days when mailboxes were filled with personal surprises? …