'Feathering Nests' - Gigi Hesterman

What constitutes a good life? How is it measured? What is measured? Is it measured in qualitative or quantitative terms?

Ideas relating to social norms, and the impact of consumerism on the social structure of our community are of continuing interest to me and provide a base for this body of work.

Feathering Nests explores ideas pertaining to self-identity, transience, life values and choices, the fragility and vulnerability of our social fabric and the notion of preciousness.

The work makes use of a repertoire of personal symbols including the painted egg shell. The shell is a fragile, decorative, hollow object of little intrinsic value. It is used as a metaphor for those consumer goods with which we feather our nests.

Gigi Hesterman 2007