Australian artist Susan Jacobs presents a rectangular slab of bronze featuring snake drawings and a video accompanying the artwork which shows the drawing process as part of the Parallel Collisions exhibition. Jacobs experiments with snake drawing, whereby she handles live snakes as they slither and slide through sand. She then casts the snake drawings into bronze.
Jacobs said the snake drawings allow for “considerations of fear to be given material form”. As Jacobs handled the live snakes, she may have felt fearful they might attack her, and the snakes also sense some fear as they slide along the sand. It seemed like these imprints were made from different snakes as there are inconsistencies within the drawings. Some of the imprints look curved and others straight, some with more depth than others and they all vary in length.
One exhibition visitor remarked: “It would have been more interesting if this (bronze slab) had snakes in it.” I disagreed with this observation, as the mark of fear is more interesting if we do not know who or what has created it. Fear is unseen but can be felt/sensed and experienced by humans and animals alike, therefore to not know what made the marks of fear can itself spark some form fear in us.
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