‘Living Arrangement’ is a series of experimental processes with ink and pen. These works are an attempt at depicting the energy and life-forms found along the foreshore of Gimuy / Cairns, in an evolutionary relationship with the beautiful and impractical Queenslander home.
“I am trying to pay tribute to nature’s energetic power as much as convey a visual image, as if seeing energy will ignite a sense of awe and a relationship of mutual influence”.
A composite habitat forms and it’s life is recorded like the botanical archive of a new species. Aerial roots begin with intentional marks. Then watery top layers organically ‘run’ into cross-bracing, joists, pipes and unplanned growths. Improvised ink flow enables a loosening of directive motion, as if freeing up intention might clear the way for nature’s invisible capacities to materialise. Pen line forms a topographical map of the ink terrain, ‘listening to’ the contours and depth of field. What unfolds is an unpredictable exploration of the effect of overlay, a search for a relationship that is more than the sum of its parts.
Two symbols of shelter combine and develop, becoming a different arrangement. Excessive top growth naturally leads to leak and collapse. Old portions are ingested, new forms appear.
TANIA TOCAR | Living Arrangement Series No. 7 - Neighbours’ | 2026 | Ink and pen on watercolour paper | H 760 x W 560 mm
