AUNTY SUZANNE CONNELLY-KILDOMITIS
Aunty Suzanne Connelly-Klidomitis
Journeys – j 111
2021, silver, river red gum, silk, Photography Fred Kroh.
ARTIST STATEMENT
AUNTY SUZANNE CONNELLY-KLIDOMITIS
My jewellery pieces represent journeys and songlines.
The patterns in my silver pieces represent the journeys of the woodworm found on the River Red Gums along the Murray River in Swan Hill where I live. The pattern/ journey is found inside the bark of the gum trees which I have reproduced in silver. Keeping the bark with the silver is in keeping with the connection to the real thing and the land. Each jewellery piece is unique, just as each journey of the woodworm is individual with its own songline. Each day we are like the woodworm—journeying every day to look for our essentials; our physical, mental and spiritual needs. We see journeys and songlines everywhere. There are patterns, journeys and songlines in everything around us, and in everything we do. From the blood vessels and veins in our bodies to the roads and rivers we travel on, everything has a journey/songline, even our beautiful River Red Gum trees—from their sap, to their branches, to the veins in their leaves.
