Almost Shadow is about the glowing space between realms, the halo of contradictions we inhabit in delicate suspension. It seeks to explore the experience of flight not as a means to escape our earthly bounds, but as constitutive of our place within it. We are held here, enmeshed within the earth and sky, organic and inorganic, life, death, the mythic and the every day. Rather than an abomination, humanity’s pursuit of flight is to my mind a perfect manifestation of this system.

Amy Perejuan-Capone is an artist/designer based in the port town of Fremantle (WA), the WA wheatbelt, and international residencies. She graduated with a BA (Fine Art) from Curtin University in 2009 and an Advanced Diploma of Industrial Design from North Metropolitan TAFE in 2014. Her major residencies include Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Japan, in 2019 and the Upernavik Museum residency, Greenland, in 2017. Amy’s most ambitious public art commission is One Word For Snow, 2017, a series of ephemeral ‘blizzards’ deployed around the Perth CBD. Amy’s latest project Don’t Stare at the Sun / for too Long (exhibited at PS Artspace, Fremantle, in November 2019) was a major turning point in her practice which saw her build a 1:1 scale sculpture of her fathers ultralight plane. Directly following this she participated in the Asialink Fremantle – Taipei Artist Village exchange in 2020, a three-month residency she spent building speculative aircraft.