Rust & Dust
This collection of images are layered works from a journey that started two decades ago. While living and working in remote central Australian desert communities, I traveled repeatedly on the well-worn tracks that run through it. The adventure is ongoing as I revisit these sites every 2-3 years and capture yet another landscape painting emerging in the rusting and dusted car-bodies; long since discarded but now landmarks of not-forgotten events that are forming their own cultural story line.
They’ve been resting here for so long now, decades. The grass grows amongst them and is burned, grows and burns, grows and burns, seasonally; and the paintings in their car-casses just get more and more beautiful every year.
Each image is a 30 x 30 photo-canvas layered with the perceptible micro, macro and human scale visual descriptors that identify it. There are 5 images from each of 4 car-casses, each with their own story; a total of 20 images that look great on their own or as a set that tell the story.
Each image is also a GPS located study situated in the middle of the Australian desert, mapped over a 20 year period as they are slowly reclaimed by the environment.
The story-canvas is also a digital pathway through Aurasma* to the intangible story of an event since past, that gives the wreck meaning and context to the people who are living in and co-creating this landscape.
- Rust & Dust photo-book AUD $ 20.00
- Rust & Dust digital canvas 300×300 AUD $ 50.00
- Rust & Dust digital story-canvas 300×300 AUD $100.00
