

Naked Landscapes.
Series
Mary and the Twelve Apostles (Pash), The Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell National Park
2009
Felt-tips on Stonehenge cotton paper
97 x 127cm
Pash poses in a (non) religious reenactment of the Virgin Mary and the serpent whilst on a miraculously private pilgrimage to the tourist hot spot of the Twelve Apostles. Her same themed tattoo was inked in honour of her devoutly Christian late grandmother, Mary, from whom Pash drew strength and guidance but not the heresy of questioning the biblical associations given to the natural wonder behind her.
[ID: A marker portrait of a naked white person un-dressed-up as Mary Magdalene with a toy snake around her tattooed shoulders and scarf on her head. She sits on a natural ledge of native flora, in front of rock formations rising out of the ocean. ‘Why does God get all the credit?’ is marked in a fancy maroon font in the left corner]