~body...fluid~: navigations in time light + space : approach+submersion

Navigations in Time Light and Space – Approach and Submersion

The photographic and video works in this series are glimpses of my instinctive response to local watery places; islands, rivers and mangrove swamps around the Gold Coast. They document journeys taken by day and night through the waterways, often to islands .Captured from on and below the waterline, the works map the transitions of light, sound and mood; gleanings from Nature that are often veiled in clear sight by the gloss of the ‘holiday strip’. They works navigate the journeys in a range of ways; as documents of journeys, circumnavigations of islands, real and imaginary; the record of the Otherness of our daily place in the world.

The video footage suggests an abstracted narrative of our approach and submersion into this place. Both documentary and metaphoric, the work uses sound and the experience of the ‘plunge’ to immerse the viewer in an’other’ environment that is not only physical, but also psychological. The places are at once familiar (the Coombabah Lake World Heritage Reserve, Macintosh Island – locale of V8 Super Cars and Indy), but made strange in a confluence of time, light and space recorded from a multiplicity of perspectives.

Samples of Work – not necessarily those proposed for the exhibition