Kate Breakey
"The natural world is chaotic and unrelenting and randomly cruel. I know this from living in the brutally harsh desert, where the little deaths are constantly tugging at my heart. In an attempt to compensate, I have collected up the dead and given them kindness and attention. I have constructed symmetrical shrines where they can have their memories and dreams in a kind of imaginary afterlife. Here in my theatre, the quail chicks have flight and love, the Cottontail is off to find his mate- as if in a children’s storybook- rodents sing and the geckos are lovers. Greek mythology, Aboriginal Dreamtime legends, Aesop’s Fables, are all here in my studio where I can have my own memories and dreams with these animal spirits".
Kate Breakey 2006
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