Beyond Mutability
“A woman learns to survive by gathering the fragments of herself the world refused to see.”
[Jean Rhys]
“There are truths the body remembers long after the mind tries to forget; endurance is the quiet work of becoming.”
[Clarice Lispector]
Beyond Mutability is a multilayered series of photographic self‑portraits and Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow blooms, whose very name acknowledges life’s fleetingness. These works are meditations on vulnerability, mortality, and the capacity to endure.
Passage [the letting go...] VI
Passage [the letting go …]
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong,
but sometimes it is letting go…”
[Hermann Hesse]
Passage [the letting go …] is an ongoing series of large‑scale photographic images documenting the annual release of seeds from the pod of the Adenium obesum (Desert Rose).
In this series, the boat‑like forms of the pods and the star‑like architecture of the seeds are explored for their symbolic and metaphorical potential. Removed from their literal botanical environment, these forms drift within a limitless black field. In this suspended space, they become vessels for an allegorical journey—each seed a quiet emblem of what is surrendered, released, or carried forward.
The work remains deliberately open to interpretation: the nature of the journey is unnamed, and what is being released is left for the viewer to contemplate. What is clear, however, is that the process depicted is not one of rupture or violence. Instead, it reflects a state of surrender, acceptance, and transformation—a meditation on the profound strength found in letting go. Prints from the Passage series are part of the Artbank permanent collection.
Topographic Ecologies- Bundadjarruga
Topographic Ecologies- Wooroonooran
Topographic Ecologies- Choreechillum
Topographic Ecologies
“The earth is a manuscript, written over and over again; its leaves inscribed with the strata of time.”
[John Ruskin]
Topographic Ecologies depicts the three iconic outcrops that shape Wooroonooran National Park and World Heritage Area—the extraordinary wilderness that dominates the landscape where I live. Using earth, ash, and ink, this series pays homage to the beauty, diversity, and complexity of an ecosystem I have lived alongside for fifteen years.
Topographic ecologies are intricate regions of high biodiversity, shaped over millennia by dynamic geological processes. Each layer of these works was created on site—painting, staining, rubbing, or impressing the surface of the landscape itself. The process became an act of both accumulation and erasure: layering and dissolving, depositing and eroding.
The resulting images form a kind of palimpsest, echoing the strata, cycles, and slow transformations of the land. These works do not aim to reproduce the terrain but to evoke its ongoing dialogue between permanence and flux, geology and ecology, presence and memory.
