Your Bright and Tiny Spark emerged from a process of wandering through the Waiatarua wetlands, the country’s biggest urban wetland restoration project. Roma Anderson recalls that heavy rain had flooded the grass plains of the wetland reserve and sunlight illuminated the blades of grass breaching the water’s surface. Anderson works intuitively and is interested in how the most unnoticed or mundane of subjects has the potential to become something otherworldly if it is engaged with genuine curiosity and care. She is particularly drawn to moments when light is at its most intense and becomes an agent in the environment, appearing as sunspots or stars.
Roma Anderson, Your Bright and Tiny Spark, 2020, Acrylic Face-Mounted Fujiflex Prints from Digital Photograph, 594 x 841 mm.
