Djilba, the season of yellow treasures
By Gloria Salgado Gispert
Artist Bio
projects, capturing moments both at home and while wandering the streets wherever she may be. Balancing family, work, and her art, Gloria’s photography unfolds naturally, rarely planned but guided by intuition and the flow of the moment. With a background in Marine Sciences and Geology, Gloria loves to go out and take pictures in this world. Life is too short; this is something she learned at an early age when she lost her father after a long illness. This has influenced her way of seeing life. “In photography, you materialize who you are. I just try to enjoy every minute”. An observer ever since she can remember, Gloria’s childhood memories are always present in her work. At the age of seventeen she was given her first camera, the same camera her mother had used to document her childhood and create family albums. “My childhood memories are like photographic frames, everything that I am able to remember starts in a tiny photo”.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
Yellagonga is a whole body, a living organism breathing being into visitors. Each time it offers something new of interest, but always sensory and always immersive. It is the experience of the sublime, the total encapsulation of the present moment. From this lens we can simplify ourselves and our problems, confronted by the vastness and sheer beauty found in this place. The sublime clarifies what is important, helping us to step back with perspective. Yellagonga teaches this and as it moves through the seasons this ability is unfaltered. Djilba, the Noongar season of conception is known as a transitional period towards warmer weather. By then Yellagonga, is home to eucalyptus, bottlebrush and Spring’s debut of wildflowers. It starts with yellow but Yellagonga has a whole palette if we look closely. This bubbling cauldron wafted aromatic clouds filling the senses with Yellagonga, an example of just how involved this practice was. From season to season we witness a transformation of place. We wonder what Kambarang will bring to us but we let the park decide. Yellagonga, September-October 2024 (Work in progress) Salgado Gispert, Gloria Watts, Michaela