Jodi Heffernan 'Coastal Walk' etching Vida LAHEY (1882 - 1968)

Vida LAHEY (1882 - 1968)

'Fire Won't Burn Stick

'pages from the diary of lost souls

Perhaps you also feel moved by the streets you walk

So remote is Kalgoorlie

Jodi Heffernan 'Coastal Walk' etching Vida LAHEY (1882 - 1968)Jodi Heffernans 'Coastal Walk' reimagines the possibilities of printmaking through a poetic use of materiality. Built upon a silkscreen base and veiled with sheer tulle, the work captures the wind battered form of a coastal tree fragile yet enduring. Across a moody field of greys and blacks, soft tonal shifts and diffused edges convey the movement of a cloudy sky. The tulle overlay amplifies this atmosphere, lending the work a sense of mist, salt air,