You Can’t Graze Your Knees on the Sky

The sky is a stage for the drama of weather to perform. 

A canvas painted by the turning of the earth, as dawn turns to dusk. 

Seasons imprint their fleeting emotions, and the sky holds their moods. 

The sky is time, non linear and untouchable. 

The sky is the internet, a space for chaos and information to live. 

The sky is an artist – an expansive vessel for expression and creation to move through. 

A body that endures change and in turn changes everything around it.

Concrete resists change. 

Its facade of stability and durability believes itself to be true.

It’s stubborn, rigid and resists the cycles of nature. 

The concrete is a coloniser. 

It’s harsh, slippery, boring and dangerous – and can be destroyed. 

You Can’t Graze Your Knees on the Skyis a collection of new paintings by Milli Windshuttle that consider how rapid changes in material and digital spaces echo within a person's emotional, physical and spiritual body. Considering the internet, the weather and the human psyche,You Can’t Graze Your Knees on the Skycontemplates the accelerated changes between the three, and the need to remain steady during their constant fluctuations. It suggests a practice of preserving one's truth whilst remaining flexible amidst ever shifting realities. Windshuttle examines these themes using an integration of figuration and abstraction, creating a conversation between the two, to reflect the act of maintaining and releasing control.