How to make the famous pisco sour

‘Pisco Sour’ represents a shift beyond earlier works in its dense layering of subject-matter and imagery. Initiated in Australia and completed in Japan, the work draws upon the core imagery of a bullock dray, a male figure in silhouette, a Japanese mask and a bottle of Pisco Sour. These appear in varied permutations alongside other seemingly random images to form a series of telescopic views (screens within screens). Verbal narrative and textual statement create a sense of tension whilst suggesting that history and meaning are never fixed. The work presents something of a conundrum, its title a metaphoric recipe for the potential ‘souring’ of things.

Produced with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Notes by Rachel Kent, reprinted courtesy of the author and d/Lux Media Arts.