the poetry of object

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

letter no 1 Noted Postal Project indigo eli 2016

threads of industry artworks, indigo eli

artwork: luxury, cashmere tampons, indigo eli 2016

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

poetry mugs indigo eli

(with(in)side) out chapbook. artwork: indigo eli (adapted from photo by Amber Bateup taken at Kiss Club, CIA Studios)

artwork: dust jacket, handstitched artwork 2015

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 on the front of this handstitched dust jacket, the word unpublished is stitched in red thread ..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

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

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

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: indigo eli

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

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

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

Poet Tree, Kings Park Spring Festival

everything is connected feathers website image

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...

artwork: leaving, photo: indigo eli

child protection artwork broken headless doll

blanket silence (detail), indigo eli

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

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

artwork: leaving, photo: indigo eli

seat, warmer, textile artwork, indigo eli

a square black and white photo of indigo’s poetic tools … an assortment of objects are laid out on a dark polka dot fabric, in a deliberate design, all connected by touch ... flowing from the top left a plastic right angle french curve ruler, a fabric lint brush, a gridded A3 cutting board, a boxed set of small screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, a vintage auto toolkit tin filled with threads and snips and vintage velvet metal pin cushion and other assorted bits and bobs, a silver scalpel ... and at the bottom of the cutting mat, an indigo eli calling card. an artefact label added to the bottom of the image, black text on white reads: Poet's tool kit, circa July 2023.

in.definite artwork detail .. a close up of the text in the work ... rounded black letters are printed on a softened white paper background, some letters are much larger than others .. the words read across regardless of size, but the enlarged letters create contrasting words and meaning .. in this cropped section, the words include determination, detention is enlarged from this, and ‘of his rights and obligations’ the word no or not is enlarged from this section .. the edge of the image and text blur

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

artwork: leaving, photo: royce kurmelovs

letter no 13 Noted Festival Postal Project indigo eli 2016

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

artwork: leaving, photo: indigo eli

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

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

in.definite, indigo eli, 2014

artwork: remembering, photo: royce kurmelovs

artwork: apology, indigo eli 2016

letter no. 18, 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? …