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Bird Songs #1 captures the unseen choreography of twilight—where movement, light, and the more-than-human world converge in a single, fleeting moment. Created using intentional camera movement, the work traces the erratic, delicate paths of birds cutting through the dusk sky, rendering their flight as threads of silver energy looping across deep blue.

The result is a celestial tangle of motion: a map of invisible rhythms, instinct, and atmospheric shifts. Beneath the skyscape, the silhouettes of trees blur into soft shadow, anchoring the image to the land while the upper frame pulses with the restless electricity of life in motion.

Photographed on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria, Bird Songs #1 speaks to the vitality of the landscape at nightfall—the moment when the day exhales and the air fills with restless wings. This work invites viewers to pause, to look upward, and to recognise the quiet complexity of the world unfolding above us.

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I am a photographic artist from the Central Goldfields of Victoria, Australia.

In 2014, I relocated from Melbourne into regional Victoria, to a rural property outside of Castlemaine. I think that living in the country has changed the way I look at and connect with the natural environment. So many of us are disconnected from nature; and we are damaging the environment at a terrifying rate. At some level, many of us are grieving all this, and through my work, I am trying to honour that grief and to create a deeper connection with the natural world around me.

From a young age, I imagined a working future in the arts, but ended up being sidelined by an international career in law and social impact. Initially working as a lawyer in top-tier firms in Australia and Hong Kong, I went on to work in the offices of State and Federal members of parliament, founded an education not-for-profit, got involved in documentary film-making and set up a social impact consulting firm.

For me, the “gift” of COVID was to make the long-overdue decision to commit to developing a full-time art practice.

I haven’t looked back.