Proposal for Hand Luggage.The notion of leaving one's belongings, ( physical or emotional) challenges the sense of identity and place.

This work has been boiled, beaten and blended from the Travellers' Palm (the East-West Tree) to form intricate layers of paper and then bound with 70 year old string, originally handspun from hemp fibre and brought from Italy to Australia in the mid 1980's.

After journeying for a long time, there is a sense of pleasure to have finally left luggage behind to create new layers to contemplate.

My major influence in starting this work has been learning of wabi-sabi - an aspect of Japanese aesthetics which values the rough, the unfinished, isolated and organic.
The work needs to held and sniffed to experience both the texture and aroma of the brick.
Please enjoy its essence and simplicity. Lesa Hepburn