The Ascent of Us | Sarah Barker
Ink-jet print
65cm x 80cm
I spent lockdown in my third floor apartment,100 metres from a major teaching hospital. The shadows of the people who passed beneath my balcony each day don’t reveal their skin colour or race, their politics, their faith or their sexual identity. But the shadows do tell us something about our shared humanity. The title refers to ‘The Ascent of Man’ by mathematician Jacob Bronowski and the ‘Us’ comes from Jacinda Ardern’s ‘They are us’ speech after the Christchurch massacre. The portraits were made and edited with a smart phone. The collage was built Photoshop.
Ink-jet print
65cm x 80cm
I spent lockdown in my third floor apartment,100 metres from a major teaching hospital. The shadows of the people who passed beneath my balcony each day don’t reveal their skin colour or race, their politics, their faith or their sexual identity. But the shadows do tell us something about our shared humanity. The title refers to ‘The Ascent of Man’ by mathematician Jacob Bronowski and the ‘Us’ comes from Jacinda Ardern’s ‘They are us’ speech after the Christchurch massacre. The portraits were made and edited with a smart phone. The collage was built Photoshop.
Ink-jet print
65cm x 80cm
I spent lockdown in my third floor apartment,100 metres from a major teaching hospital. The shadows of the people who passed beneath my balcony each day don’t reveal their skin colour or race, their politics, their faith or their sexual identity. But the shadows do tell us something about our shared humanity. The title refers to ‘The Ascent of Man’ by mathematician Jacob Bronowski and the ‘Us’ comes from Jacinda Ardern’s ‘They are us’ speech after the Christchurch massacre. The portraits were made and edited with a smart phone. The collage was built Photoshop.