The Crossing is a long-form work concerned with human impact and a ‘wounded’ Australian ecology in which our legacy is undeniably carved into everything we’ve touched; water, land, air... The work reflects on nature in states of disappearance, adaptation and transition. Following on from a series of work documenting the effects of climate change and aftermath of severe bushfires at Lake Mountain (Victoria, Australia), The Crossing continues my engagement with man’s fractured relationship to the natural world. The works speak of our collective state of urgency, drawing on what remains and what is at stake while suggesting notions of our own arrival and departure in relation to the natural world.
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