‘Silbo’, Red Gallery, Fitzroy VIC || February 2020
SILBO ||||| 2019
“Art is important for it commemorates the sections of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s understanding. It is also a map for those who follow us.”
Silbo is a constructed series of imagery, whereby Billie takes on from her previous series Collapso De La Nostalgia, in researching the theme of human connection and nature, using various colour techniques and transfigurations. Billie has always been drawn to dream like realities and creating imaginary lands. This work was created whilst doing an Artist Residency on the island of La Gomera the second smallest island of the Canarias in Spain. The islands remoteness allowed Billie to explore her subconscious hidden away from the world.
The work explores one’s perspective of time and the notion that time is interchangeable in environments that we exist. We experience things happening and time is unnoticed. Time and Timelessness seem to intersect for human benefit and instruction. In nature everything is an exchange of energy, either physical and tangible or intangible. La Gomera has the energy of synchronicity, you follow paths and roads that eventually all connect to the same places, but time feels like it has been misplaced. Every path you take feels as though you’re taken to where you are supposed to be in that specific moment. In Greek Mythology there are terms used for these moments, Chronos and Kairos. Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time and Kairos was the Greek God who symbolised chance, fortune and every example of meaningul coincidence. Kairos is in play when things happen unpredictably, but at just the right moment
