This work was first commissioned for presentation on BLINDSIDE Mobile, for the exhibition 'Lost things and something from nothing'.

This work was shot on black and white film, at bodies of water I regularly swim in on Djaara and Bunurong country. The undeveloped film was then soaked for a week in water collected from these locations, to allow the material and mineral makeup of these sites to alter and impress upon the visual image of them. This soaking in liquids with various organic and chemical contributors, causes the silver emulsion of the film to slip and move, producing a grain and patterning onto the image of the landscape not unlike a hidden punctuation in the grammar of representation. As the films soaked, I too was immersed in these waters, and through this wanted to consider a history of landscape photography that is implicitly based on distance, immediacy, and capture. With a longer timeframe of 'exposure' (to light, and to subsequent minerals and liquids), could a traditionally Western tradition of imaging place be re-inscribed with the invisible forces of fluidity and minerality? 

I would like to acknowledge the Djaara and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nations, whose land this work was made on and in response to. I want to highlight the ongoing colonial legacy of ownership and genocide that continue to impact these landscapes, including my own occupation as white settler. Sovereignty was never ceded.