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All his work is designed to illustrated non-existent, shadowy social groups, engaged in ambiguous activity. They appear to be a group of
Europeans who have gone feral in a tropical jungle. Covered wholly or partially in mud, they stare dully out at the camera through elaborate necklaces and garlands
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of brightly coloured, sensuous flowers. Phallic and vulval forms dominate the arrangements (pitcher plants and orchids). The figures are passive and unthreatening, but also generate frissons of evil and madness and exert a horrid fascination. Mud was the medium of Orjis' graduation show in 2006,
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My Empire of Dirt: Selected works on paper, Roger
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Richard Orjis / Todd Stratton, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
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