Out on Ward’s Island, far from the city’s bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten–ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows. They’re more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror.
Where the guardainfante dresses camouflaged illicit pregnancies, it has been suggested the the male Bowerbird has a higher success rate in mating, when the objects he arranges have a strong optical illusion or constructed perspective”.-Helen Sear.After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. It is often the case that the Bowerbird will select a single color to decorate the nest with. “In my imagination the decoration of these roots will lure the water back, in the same way that a Bowerbird decorates its nest to attract a mate. The use of the duotone color reinstates the past water level, and also refers to older methods of adding tints, dyes and filters to black and white photographs.Įach photograph is titled with the name of a mythological goddess associated either with willow trees or water. Each of the individual trees were decorated with wild flowers growing at the site. Sear’s authorial intervention, evident elsewhere across her artistic practice, is employed here both physically and in the manipulation of the photograph itself.
The tree roots reminded the artist of the ‘skirts’ or hooped dresses-guardainfante-of the Spanish court painted by Velasquez, and with this in mind, the work is a simultaneous exploration of display/decoration and camouflage. The thick fibrous tap roots of the trees are laid bare, resulting from a receding water level.
The Diviner series, made over the course of two years, depict willow trees at the edge of the Lac de Cercey in France.
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