Bodies of Water
Water is at the genesis of my current artistic practice. It is both my muse and my sage.
I grew up on the coast. The beach and swimming pools have been central to my life, both culturally and physically. I am a person of salt and chlorine.
Living beside the Brisbane River, Maiwar, and swimming laps at the local pool gives me solace and a daily sense of water-place.
Current work includes The Water Diaries, where the fluid motion of water is stilled by the camera lens and overlaid with the written word.
My use of text arises from a simple notion; what would water say if it had the agency of a voice? What memory and stories does it hold? How can it help me empathise with the more-than-human world in ways outside my own human perspective?
Water embodies connection and reciprocity. Both an acknowledgement of the water I come from and a responsibility to the water I pass on.
We are all bodies of water, continually dissolving into other bodies of water – the air, the ocean, other living things. This osmosis of H2O both ‘into’ and ‘out of’ my anatomy, beyond my skin, forms a profound fluid belonging to the planet.