 | | Jackie Cavallaro's miniature worlds explore body, mind, and memory. Born out of extended periods practicing mindfulness, her works resonate with memories, which thread from one moment to the next as with the serendipitous flow of life itself. Utilising paper cutting and mixed media, she creates ornate and fantastical multi-layered pastiches of classicism and gothic sensibility.
‘All that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.’ Henri Bergson
Botticelli’s Venus tattooed on my son’s arm.
Meditating, opening my eyes to a flurry of white butterflies and floating pollens,
Childhood woodlands,
A sleepless night in the arms of a lover,
Memories threading from one moment to the next with the serendipitous flow of life itself.
Jumping from days to months to years to decades all flashing by in minutes.
Exploration of body, mind, memory, soul.
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Jackie Cavallaro
Beauty was born before reason
paper cut and mixed media (framed)
55 x 35cm
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