A Certain Sinister Perception
Lindsay Antrobus Evans
No.1 Parnell Gallery 01/09/2018 – 04/10/2018
Once Upon A Time In A Distant Land, in a primary school, I was asked what I'd like to be when I grew up. My heart was set on training to be a teacher.
I was informed that being left-handed would make this impossible, so over the next two years during class I had my left arm tied to my side so that it was unusable. They were training me, breaking me in, teaching me the Right Way, the appropriate way, the essential way.
What I learnt was that I am inherently and innately wrong.
Over the following years I have also learnt that I am physically, culturally, religiously and spiritually wrong.
Most human cultures despise and deride the left side, their languages indicate a preference for the right and a disdain for the 10% of the population who are born left-handed...
No.1 Parnell Gallery 01/09/2018 – 04/10/2018
Once Upon A Time In A Distant Land, in a primary school, I was asked what I'd like to be when I grew up. My heart was set on training to be a teacher.
I was informed that being left-handed would make this impossible, so over the next two years during class I had my left arm tied to my side so that it was unusable. They were training me, breaking me in, teaching me the Right Way, the appropriate way, the essential way.
What I learnt was that I am inherently and innately wrong.
Over the following years I have also learnt that I am physically, culturally, religiously and spiritually wrong.
Most human cultures despise and deride the left side, their languages indicate a preference for the right and a disdain for the 10% of the population who are born left-handed...
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Left
Cack-handed Ambidextrous Sinister Gauche Taha mate Linkisch Mancino MollyDooker |
lyft - weak
the shit covered hand both right hands left Latin evil, threatening awkward, clumsy not Right, not Life awkward, maladroit crooked, maimed queer-fisted |
Old English
Colloquial English Latin English French Maori German Italian Australian |
My art practice spurs me on to seek out that elusive 10% of 'truth' that society obfuscates. Once I conceive of a work, I follow it up by embracing and indulging in the process of research. This enables me to draw out the 10% that isn't immediately obvious. And later when physically making the work, which often includes injuries from the awkwardness of right-handed tools, I conceal the expression of my own 'truths'.
The work is then rendered palateable for the viewing public by the obfuscation of my own Alterity.
The work is then rendered palateable for the viewing public by the obfuscation of my own Alterity.
