About Process

Ground on ground, staining, rubbing, washing, printing, wiping, rinsing, ironing. These are the processes of my training and my inclination. They are continuously used and adapted in a dialogue with the land. Place and placelessness shift and slide as I deal with colonisation and dispossession. The land holds the traces of the past, glimpses are given, knowledge is gained and the dialogue continues. The archaeologist John Mulvaney once said that an inspirited landscape was one of the greatest gifts given to us by Indigenous people. My work aims to find a ground where this is respected across all cultures who share the land.

Drawing process

Drawing process
Membrane of Memory, Truganini Track, Mt Nelson, Tasmania

Monday, June 22, 2015

Ochres on the Line

Over time the paper was worked on both sides with crushed ochre suspended in Japanese glue. The roll of paper was taken back to the site, gradually acquiring new layers of ochre.
The ochre was found by sides of the road, it had been dislodged and discarded through the movements of land by continuing colonisation. 


The paper retains the traces of the elementary forces
forces that impinge on us as living beings,
forces like “pressure, inertia, weight, attraction, gravitation, germination” (Deleuze 2003:48)
The drawing has been washed, mended and folded.

It echoes the colours of the country but acknowledges the intervention of humanity. 


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