Louise Palmer and David Haine’s Arcadia was an exercise in landscape
mimicry. Embedding three broken blue
glasses and a fourth green one into a free standing plinth Palmer created a
landscape vignette of Sydney’s Blue
Mountains. Accompanying this
work was a postcard edition by David Haines, which was also a similar landscape
study. Together the two works comprised
a collaborative exhibition that turned on themes of nostalgia, landscape
determinism. The crepuscular mood of Haines
mist enshrouded mountains, and the everyday, consumable duress of Palmer’s
glasses, mixed the mundane with the paranormal.