Stoneware figures, Hallway Gallery, 2025 © / Screenshot “Weathered”, 2025, © / Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga / Feb 8 - March 22, 2025
In Weathered I am seeking to provoke introspection. Each frame is an invitation to meditate on the landscape and existence within that landscape. I explore despair and hope, and the profound impact of a decaying world on the individual psyche. Steel giants dance against a backdrop of smog-choked skies, and giant worms weave in and out of the cranes. Tubes, ropes and wires are like veins pulsing throughout, connecting and disconnecting. Hooks are anchors and symbolic of immovability. Mechanical limbs are constructing and deconstructing.

In Weathered nature is fractured, and stripped bare. It is decaying, upside-down, and the balance is lost. Figures stand alone with a sense of alienation, broken and disrupted. There is an absence in space - desolate. Stone figures are cold and immovable, providing contrast and rendering a quiet stillness. They represent a symbol of the weight of time and the endurance of memory. The permanence of life and death, and  are symbolic of a collective consciousness.

Screenshot “Through My Lens” 2022©

I have created my own landscape by ripping, photographing, drawing and painting a changing landscape. Portals are used throughout as a metaphor for a lens.

There are people situated inside the landscape; construction workers, hikers and someone nestled inside the arm of a crane - they are made to look small.

I have been looking at cranes and window cleaners outside tall buildings. Also, mobile/cell towers that appear, and seem to be trying to look like trees in the landscape. Gradually, my awareness of these towers has increased.

AWARDS

Winner, The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, SALA Festival, 2023.

Experimental Film Fest, Official Selection

35 Girona Film Festival, Official Selection

Jakarta Independent Film Festival, Finalist

Screenshot “Whether World”, 2022 ©

M16 ARTSPACE, Canberra

April 14 - May 7, 2023

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8170933/digital-artists-invite-new-ways-to-look-at-the-world/

“I am between two worlds. In one, I can see humans are crawling on the brown earth, butterflies are communicating with humans. Seeds are growing above the ground as well as underground. To me, trees are more valuable than diamonds. In my world, I float amongst the clouds, smell flowers, and swim underwater like a squid. I am free, and I am not ‘earth bound’. I am not heavy-footed and I don’t need to be always standing upright. I am at one with the weather. I see people communicating with flowers and bees, and flowers and bees communicating right back. I see pigs in all their size and pinkness walking around us. In this world, humans and non-humans co-exist rather than have a hierarchical existence. Humans are no longer at the top of the chain.

In this other world, it is bleak and dark. Flowers, petals and bees are imaginative things. We are now completely covered up as the air is toxic. I look up, and the sky is always dark, and the light is always artificial.” Susan Bruce