The entanglement, a contemporary vanitas confronting the repeated loss of a landscape, reflects the consequences of human-driven environmental change. Along the highway between Melbourne and Canberra, a once biodiverse terrain was claimed, cleared, colonised, razed, and capitalised on by humans, leaving only heaps of debris and the remnants of a pine plantation. The blinding light reveals devastation and our responsibility for the interconnectedness of matter and meaning
Created with ubiquitous materials, graphite, water and plastic,