Sriwhana Spong

And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree (2022)

5 min 3 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

An animation of the insects found in the last painting made by Spong's grandfather, the Balinese artist I Gusti Made Rundu. Their swarm imagines ancestry not as linear succession but as an accumulation of energy "charged with potentiality."

Credits & notes

Animation: Eleni Zachariou

    Sriwhana Spong, And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree (2022). Installation view, Legacies, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2023. Photo by Ted Whitaker.

    Sriwhana Spong, And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree (2022). Installation view, Legacies, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2023. Photo by Ted Whitaker.

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