Ken and Julia Yonetani’s works began with QUT scientists, exploring impacts of farming on the environment
“There is so much inside us, literally, in terms of microorganisms, that our own DNA is only a fraction of the DNA within us,” Julia Yonetani says.As she walks through the highlights of their 14 years of work on display at theUniversity of Technology’s art museum, Julia Yonetani rattles off the individual scientists whose research and ideas informed much of their art.
Take Sweet Barrier Reef , a work given its own room. Suggestive bone white coral heads, bathed in dappled and wavering blue light, sit on a bed of sand-like substance raked into the patterns of a zen garden. The substance is, in fact, sugar. So too the coral.Photograph: Anthony Weate/Queensland University of TechnologyThe couples’ reef anxiety dates back to the 1990s, diving off the south-western Japanese islands of Okinawa.
Other works are of solidified salt. Still Life: The Food Bowl emerged from a residency in Mildura. It is a table groaning under the weight of a feast made from the salt pumped out of rising groundwater to protect agriculture in the Murray-Darling basin from the creeping threat of salinity.Agricultural practices must change, Yonetani says, but she respects farmers just as she does scientists. In fact, she is one. The couple run a small, organic farm just outside the city of Kyoto.
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