May 2023 - Stone Tape Theory

Bus shelter veiled in aphotic glass clouded by weather and personage. Some people say that the essence of a ghost is manifested through the interior playback of old structures, but the living is echoed too, recorded here in mark-making events that resist or otherwise intervene on the landscape and the surrounding suburbs.

Photography has long been suggested as a supernatural tool for photographing ghosts - dating back to the 19th century. These spiritous markings on the bus stop may be removed or replaced, their original makers scatted long ago. However, their photographic documentation endures.

Sample Series - Found Asemics

Sampler Series draws from observation, experimentation and preservation through diaristic practice. This panel was drawn from an old photograph I made on New Year's Day 2021. My brother and I wove backpacked into tall and glaucus filiform stalks, while heavy black cicadas with red eyes hugged hardier stems. On the edge of the industrial precinct, I met the fortuitous work of abandonment, asemic glyphs shaped from wire left to darken and rust in the gritty dirt. The glyphs reflected artificial fabrication, language and the shifting gaze of meaning, but they also echoed the cicada chorus - the mysterious manifestation of irregular populational cycles - gripping the reaches of cool plantlife till the end of February and the meteorological summer.

Shelterbelt

Planted along the western side of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia, these Monterey pines were likely intended as a shelterbelt to abate winds meeting the peninsula shore. Located in Weston Park, a site named after the founder of a nearby nursery in 1914, the pines are twisted with curlicue branches, the midday sun glancing through the needled canopy.