Wild Chorus offers up a strange home brew of trinket potions, pseudo shrines and visual conversations as one might offer up the contents of a house that's waiting to be sold in anticipation for their life entering it’s next stage.

Here instinct, trust and doubt are examined through the collected symbols of her creative life.  Combined with underlying stories from her inherited history and contemporary anecdotes from her daily observations, it is an attempt to construct a self-formulated alchemical approach to her own lived experience and philosophy. This work addresses the fact that as humans our lives tend to fill with things as we grow older.  All the bits and pieces that we accumulate for different reasons; ideas, prejudices, hopes and fears - and it all comes together to create a wild chorus that is constantly chiming in from the sidelines.  In the same way that one bird adds to another’s call, one object leads to another until we are surrounded by the deafening roar of all of our collective trash and treasure.

Is it possible to live like a wild animal without this stuff? Or do we need these things to make meaning in our lives?

Pictured in odd still lives, combinations and arrangements, this personal world of stuff seems to be sorted according to its capacity for nostalgia, for usefulness, for meaning and for play, on mass resembling a kind of ‘Saturn Returns’ garage sale.

- Anna Krien, catalogue text, 2010