An artwork that sits very close to my heart and part of my disciplined drawing practice has been acquired d by the State library of NSW. Over the years i have made numerous artists books, usually as an entry into new subject matter or for focussed daily practice. Sometimes, they are all black and white but in this case the book happens to be the noisiest and most exuberant made to date.

Days of White Bluff Codex

Days of White Bluff (Codex) was created as part of the White Bluff Project, a 3year Art + Science collaboration. The work is an investigation of one micro aspect of the site, at the liminal edge where water and land meet. As quoted by Greg Elks, Plant Ecologist, it’s about exploring the “erosion and geology being exploited by nature “. My practice focuses on natural and man-made pattern and here I found nestled in rock cleaves, tiny ovoid, white Nerite snail eggs all jostling for protective positions. The intention was to record and exhaust subject but adhere to disciplined daily habits that are about intuition and happenstance. From the outset, the intimacy of creating and presenting in book form was the driving force, removing the traditional barrier of framing works on paper. As an artwork it is meant to be held, explored and contemplated. Sarah Mufford 2021