The body of work reflects a fragmented psychology through an interdisciplinary approach involving photography, drawing, sound, video, and performance. Aligned with themes of loss, exile, and psychological fracture, the works intend to display a more detached and less atomised perspective, moving beyond initial emotional responses to catastrophe.
It aims to find less sentimental angles for representing material gathered during the so-called Black Summer bushfires in 2019/2020. Personal memories of that period are marked by the excitement of uncertainty and danger, as much as the sublunary and mundane nature of living day to day with a fractured family among the ruins of the home that once held it together.
The first artwork, New Year's in Cobargo, is a set of photographs that eschew sensational representations of the destruction wrought by the fires. The second series of works, Does the Fire Eat Vegetables, are drawings based on memories of the fires and are the raw expression of such experiences. The third artwork comprised of three separate components, the video works I Love Money and Going, with an accompanying sound piece, critiques the victimisation of people who have experienced trauma. In addition, a live performance by Jacky Wünder and its aftermath culminates as a cathartic response to silence and disaster.
