the poetry of object

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

poetry magnets indigo eli 7 designs

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

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...

poetic fortunes, indigo eli

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

The Poetry of Object 0.1 exhibition

poetry mugs indigo eli

letter no 1 Noted Postal Project indigo eli 2016

in.definite, indigo eli, 2014

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

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

stitched words on handkerchief, indigo eli, 2011

seat, warmer, textile artwork, indigo eli

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

artwork: apology (detail), indigo eli 2016

artwork: luxury, cashmere tampons, indigo eli 2016

letter no 13 Noted Festival Postal Project indigo eli 2016

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

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

threads of industry artworks, indigo eli

numbered budgie eggs, handmade nest, indigo eli, 2013

artwork: leaving, photo: indigo eli

little love poem, indigo eli

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

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

in.definite, artwork detail

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

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

NEST Residency and Showing, indigo eli photo: Royce Kurmelovs

artwork: blanket silence, indigo eli, 2015

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? …