Flight

Jane Whitten’s basketry exists outside the genre’s established functional boundaries. My favourite from Canberra based Whitten’s recent Objectspace installation, Flight is composed of little more than a collection of plastic airline spoons woven into a small circular huddle with telephone wire. Flight embodies Whitten’s subtle found object approach to making. It is the self evident knowledge of aesthetic form and the ecological narrative in mass production which gives this unassuming and beautiful little work it’s conceptual gravitas. I love that this object, if it was to go on living in a domestic setting, would subtly remind me of all the permanent materials I’ve recently disposed of.