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Roo is a Brisbane/Meanjin based artist mainly working with ball point pen. Due to her challenging and traumatic upbringing, she found the beauty in escaping into all things creative. Coming from a family not able to afford much, she often scavenged pens to teach herself how to draw.
Fast forward to her adult years, half of her adulthood was faced by life adversities year after year, with many sick family members and subsequent deaths, she found solace once again in art. It is through art she often gains insight of peace, compassion and empathy for all living beings. Her work often combines nature or animals with elements of modern life, creating multi-dimensional meanings behind each piece.
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This piece is a self-inquiry into my existentialism and my relationship with the environment. It questions where I stand in the balance of preserving the environment for a sustainable future or the human exploitation of nature for our consumption needs.
The Australian blue banded bee juxtaposed with a lollipop portrays the fragility of nature feeding on a lollipop, which ultimately represents all of human addictions (be it sugar/substances, technology, food). We are all complicit in environmental destruction.