Rosemary Laing
SKUNKWORKS – Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Type C photograph
50 x 113 cm (image)
$7,000.00 including GST
Provenance:
Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Literature:
Another from the edition is illustrated in Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Rosemary Laing, Piper Press, Sydney, 2012, illus. p.80
'In Laing's work of the mid to late 1990s, flight, the airport and the NASA spaceport are ciphers for life lived at the interface of nature and technology....
Laing's NASA photographs are of technology beyond the realm of public experience. Yet even when unpeopled the photographs reference human gesture: machines of almost unimaginable capability have been anthropomorphised, nurtured lovingly as if wounded or vulnerable bodies.' (B. French, 'Rosemary Laing', Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, 2009, p. 89)
