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VCA Art 2025

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)

To you,

I am trying to grasp something which I can’t see, where absence is made tangible in left over remnants.
Failure, disruption and intimacy muddle. I take in arms this instant, I clasp an exhale, I clench a dance.
In this holding, the clammy sweat drips; I lose it.
Slips, bends and folds hold me in palms, I pound steel, it bends me back.
This conversation to which I can only hope there is no end

DANCE WE MUST DANCE

And I thank you,
Lou


Lou Wills

I begin to bend, liquid emulsion darkroom print on steel, 2025

Lou Wills, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Astrid Mulder.