Extended Landfall
 Untitled Illumination 12017, Giclee print, electronic illumination. 110cm x 86cm. |  Untitled Illumination 22017, Giclee print, electronic illumination. 110cm x 86cm. |
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 Untitled Illumination 2Detail: Lit 2017, Giclee print, electronic illumination. 110cm x 86cm. |  Manes Temporis (Ghosts of Time)2017, Giclee archival print, 110 cm x 85 cm |
 Un-Settlement2018, Giclee archival print, 120 cm x 79 cm |  Passage2017, Giclee print. Digitised historical family photos and Polaroids, 110 x 73cm. |
 Reconstructed Memories (Series)2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  GhostingReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |
 Exile TableauReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  WegelegeReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, digital images, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms (NFS) |
 Pelagic YawReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, digital image, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  Night JellyReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |
 Dead WakeReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  ZenithReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |
 Palegic ExternaReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  FathomlyReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |
 Ox EyeReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |  CardinalReconstructed Memories (Series), 2017 Polaroid emulsion lifts, electronic illumination, guilders wax 'gold leaf' finished frame, acrylic 35 x 35cms |
The fracturing and distorted re imagining of shared and personal history...
Extended Landfall is the instinctive ‘knowing’ of oncoming land by ancient seafarers through sensory anomalies such as the smell of grass, the presence of particular animals, sea swells and so on, gathered well before any land is seen. It is in this moment that imaginings of place become charged with anticipatory emotions provoking fantastical and frightful potential.
This work is set from my own view as the Australian daughter of an immigrant family who first arrived on the shores of Fremantle before settling in Australia. It intersects perspectives of place and self with the fear and fantasy of location. Illumination, obstruction and redactions are played off against one another as a way of exploring the concept of Truth in the pursuit of a National Identity revealing the construction of histories and national / personal identities. These identities result from experiences and emotions that are always in a state of torsion with ‘facts’. Faults and inclusions as a mode of questioning validities, are retained (and sometimes added) further warping truths, memories and preconceptions of realities as well as indicating a mediated spectral presence of the memorist-artist.
Through this remixing and re-figuring, I propose that imagined and unfixed modes of knowing about place-land-self offer new considerations for Identity by challenging our linear, muted and eroded colonist histories into uncanny porous states of being.