在过去十年的职业生涯中，墨尔本艺术家Emily Ferretti已经拼凑出一种令人信服的绘画表达手段，结果又一次又一次地将其轻轻地重新表述、重塑和重铸。《双向行走》是在一个对这位艺术家来说关键的时刻诞生的。2015年，她在纽约市澳大利亚委员会格林街工作室驻留了三个月。本书介绍的绘画、素描和大型装置艺术作品创作于这一时期前后，这些作品不仅探讨了她的作品的越来越抽象、复杂和多面性的领域，而且还探讨了她对美国民间艺术的美学、构图和哲学基础的日益迷恋和研究。

The idea of duality is hardly a new one in the scope of art history. The threshing of tensions between lineages, aesthetics, references, techniques and their various counterpoints is at the core of art’s continual re-imagining and manifestation, especially in the context of the contemporary. During a career that has spanned the last decade, Melbourne-based artist Emily Ferretti has pieced together a convincing painterly vocabulary, only to gently rephrase, remould and recast it, time and time again. Walking in Both Directions arrives at a pivotal time for the artist. Bookending a three-month residency in the Australian Council’s Greene Street studio in New York City in 2015, the paintings, drawings and (in one case) major installation that feature in this book not only explore her work’s increasingly abstract, complex and faceted terrains, but her growing fascination and research into the aesthetic, compositional and philosophical underpinnings of American folk art.