Something to Do with Your Old Purses and Compacts
By themselves, the miniature nature scenes painstakingly realized by Australian artist Kendal Murray aren’t particularly compelling or provocative — other than an obsessive attention to detail that went into them. But when arranged on found objects, such as old purses and compacts, they take on a hyper-real poignancy, a smaller and more private private Idaho. These dioramas, with their rhyming yet nonsensical titles, appear to have sprung out of the object itself, like little big bangs, for a repurposed raison d’être.
Declare Scare Swear
Discreet Sweet Deceit
Esteem Dream
Foresake Double-Take
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Fun Run Dry Run
Ambition Acquisition
Hide and Seek Sneak Technique
Hound Found Common Ground
Bye Bye Reply Awry
Seaside Stride Pride Confide
Zoom Consume Boom
Come Around Lost or Found
Disguise Surprise
Exclaim Disclaim Ballgame
Face Off Show Off
Humming Forthcoming
Parkland Heartland
Seek Peak So to Speak
Seeker Speaker
Solitary Momentary
Tour Guide Bona Fide Implied
Yield Concealed Afield