In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Anna Mathilda shows us the project she made as a student years ago – and has recently unearthed
early two decades ago, Anna Mathilda painstakingly stuck hundreds of seed samples and spices to framing offcuts for a university project. For years it was packed away, its decorative morsels becoming fodder for hungry mice. But recent rental security has given Mathilda a chance to revisit the 32-panel “specimen chest”, beginning some much needed repairs and putting it back on display.During her final year as a fine arts major, Mathilda was musing on the aesthetics of bean seeds.
It isn’t just the visuals that capture visitors’ imaginations. “Everyone seems to want to smell it too.” ‘If people can be encouraged to observe more closely the small parts of our lives … then we have a chance to live more sustainably’: a closeup of Mathilda’s seeds.No longer an aspiring artist, Mathilda now teaches permaculture. So the work reflects her life in a different way. It is an instruction in observation. “If people can value the diversity of the tiny things in the world”, she says, then hopefully they can “make connections to their place in the bigger world”.
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