Life on display
Alinart1: Alina next to her works ‘Figure Web’ made up of photographic images on photocopied paper
By Jason McIntosh
Struggling from the death of a close friend and uncertainty about her own future, Alina Tucker found solace, expression and confidence to move ahead through art.
The Charles Darwin University Bachelor of Creative Arts student has just exhibited her works at Watch This Space in Alice Springs.
Her exhibition was constructed around the notion of entrapment and her inability to move on in life, using symbolic references to spider webs, mirrors and windows.
"I wanted to make something that showed how I really felt then because it was the easiest way for me to express myself," she said.
The spider web represented safety, mirrors forced viewers to reflect on themselves and windows were a paradigm of the often narrow views they can have of their outside world, Alina said.
She said the exhibition forced her to confront emotions of her past that had been bottled up.
"It was time to construct another part of my life journey. This exhibition forced me to explain its significance," she said.
"It was a big step for me to finally be able to talk about what had happened and how I really felt."
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