Tees - One Way Ticket

Tees presented at the exhibition Quarter Life Crisis: Between Having It All And Never Wanting Anything At All

 

About the art:

Gadon once said to herself “If NASA offered me a one way ticket to outer space, I would definitely grab it.” Fleetingly, this random thought appeared in her head, a week later her family received life changing news, they had been given the opportunity to migrate to Australia.

Living in the Philippines, struggling to keep above the poverty line and living just below the middle class line, Gadon and her family struggled with everyday living. Living from day to day, as many Filipinos and their families, the Gadon family dream was to live without struggle and have some future security. Gadon created this artwork based on her emotions of this life changing experience. There is no impossibility in life, dreams can come true. The dream of a ‘One Way Ticket’ to escape to the farthest reaches became a reality, a life in Australia. At an age when she felt like life had happened already, with no changes possible from the every day struggle. The heartache to leave cherished friends and family, and start a new life with an unknown future.