It all comes back to land, and our relationships to it. My art practice is rooted in a deep questioning of site/sight: shifting the view from a passive landscape to an active living one with sentience and its own stories. Using analog film cameras and multidisciplinary research, I have spent over a decade stretching and reflecting my understanding of the underlying forces that give spaces their form: from the spirits beneath to the ongoing consolidations of colonialism and globalised capital.

For this residency with Allowing Many Forms, we took the opportunity to explore images that were outside of the strong political themes that generally direct my work. By opening up my archives, I searched for imagery that didn’t fit in my other projects, images that have always fascinated me by their uncanny looseness, their essential lack of clarity. We pushed this further by heavily cropping and stretching the boundaries of legibility through experimental printing processes. In doing so, it allowed us to lean into an emotive and subconscious side of things, a much needed move to process a tumultuous time in my life.