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“The shadows that appeared on the wall were like bodies hanging from nooses,” says artist Yhonnie Scarce.
She is talking about a moment at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2017, during the installation of her piece Death Zephyr; a nuclear cloud created from thousands of hand-blown glass yams, roughly the shape of inverted teardrops, suspended from the ceiling.
“When I saw them, I had to leave the room for a moment,” she says now. “Shadows are really important in my work. But that threw me.”