Borrowing the Indigo colour as an evocative symbol of Japanese culture, Melinda's works on paper are constructed moments of reflection, contemplation and experience inspired by travelling through Japan.

The works are assembled from collected Japanese ephemera: dockets, museum tickets, coasters, slips and serviettes, wrappings and envelopes, …everyday incidental paper miscellanea, painted and printed on, gently splattered with ink and shaped by the haptic process of cutting and tearing.

“I wanted to identify the poetic potential in everyday interactions and objects. The transactions of everyday life in Japan are recorded, like in most countries, through simple paper receipts and printed dockets, … however, in Japan, there is something beautifully humble that accompanies these exchanges…there is always a bow, a tilt of the head, a moment of consideration, that is expressed as a courtesy in the interchange- a stillness in the intersubjective space."