So here I am! The Pale Immigrant is a self portrait. Or perhaps this rendering could be described as auto-fiction. Calliper and photographs were used to measure and view images of my body as a starting point for this work, as an attempt at accuracy, but the tan line created by a singlet and shorts, which is a fiction, talks about the vulnerability of the body and the passing of time spent in the Australian bush. So this is an interrogation. What is this? What do you want? I find myself an old man. We can not see or understand objectively. Especially when it comes to looking at, or understanding our self. So we make up stories… David Tucker Dundurrabin NSW The Pale Immigrant ceramic with painted wood artefact
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