
Artwork Information
The artist’s gloved hands appear in these photographs as she actively constructs and adjusts the props. The Surrealis-tstyle cutting-and-pasting within each panel creates startling combinations and deliberately mysterious connections between materials, signs and symbols. These 10 lightboxes illuminate the 10 states of Sephirot from Kabbalah doctrine – the 10 powers which are the source of all cosmic energy. ‘Quiddity’ refers
to the essential nature of a thing. By making the word plural, Morison suggests that many qualities exist, rather than one essential type.
- Artist
- Julia Morison
- Title
- Quiddities I - X
- Production Date
- 1989
- Medium
- cibatransparencies
- Dimensions
- 980 x 720 x 268 mm
- Credit Line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1991
- Accession No
- 1991/8/1-10
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display Status
- Not on display
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