Ida Lawrence Indonesian–Australian, b. 1988
4231, 2025
oil on clear primed wooden boards
3 panels,
30 cm x 25 cm (x 1),
40 cm x 30 cm (x 2)
30 cm x 25 cm (x 1),
40 cm x 30 cm (x 2)
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4231 brings together two things that were never meant to be a match: a dragon ornament Lawrence once noticed on a door, and a stray fragment of text that seemed...
4231 brings together two things that were never meant to be a match: a dragon ornament Lawrence once noticed on a door, and a stray fragment of text that seemed to drift over from the pandemic era. Their combination is unresolved. Together they create a small friction, an image and a phrase that refuse to explain each other. She is interested in how viewers negotiate that gap, what stories they stitch between elements that share a frame but not a history, and how meaning forms when context is missing, mismatched, or simply invented.
