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Little tales 2015

Digital photographs

This series of photographs came out of a visit to a deserted, ramshackle house near Smiths Lake on the Mid North Coast of NSW; it was full of shadows and a sense of abandonment. I used my childhood toys and discoveries from flea markets to tell a tale. The doll is child-like and sinister, vulnerable and strong all at once.   

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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.