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Girl, wolf, home 2013

Digital photographs

This work is a stepping stone piece to expand my practice from painting to other mediums, that happened when spending time in arid western NSW. I was struck by the magnitude of the landscape - foreign and awe-inspiring, frightening and deadly. The work is explores the question of home and belonging in a new and strange country.

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A tall Liquidambar styraciflua -tree towers in our urban backyard.

She is over 100 years old and has witnessed lives of other families before us; she observes humans’ restlessness.

Liquidambar is not an Australian native tree. I am not native either. We are immigrants from faraway lands. We have become friends – she is the older and wiser of us, and my confidant. She listens, and sometimes responds with a hum. She sees far, over the entire neighbourhood.

My friend Liquidambar will still be standing, pushing against the foundations of our house, long after I am gone.