Gianni Wise, “residuo de la vida I”, 2000, (A1 on watercolour stock). Image the artist

Gianni Wise, “residuo de la vida III”, 2000, (A1 on watercolour stock). Image the artist

Santiago, Chile
Shown at Airspace, Sydney and Cerro San Cristóbal (Tupahue, San Cristóbal Hill)
Mixed media on heavy watercolour stock
I was interested in how I could in some obscure way in refect, or even emanate the force of human remains beyond death. Some local Mapuche (indigenous) had expressed a sense of the burden of those human remains buried in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. A report of dried mummified bodies had just released. Memorialised perhaps