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I use to be one to join mass protests but since covid my anxiety of crowds has heightened. Recently I've been taking a strong interest in climate change and our existential crisis through the lens of Australian Ecology. As The Native Australian Garden by Angus Stewart and A.B. Bishop suggests It's not too much of a stretch to say...
Recently I've been trying to find ways of expanding research for my practise in a self initiated way as opposed to an academic way. I decided to check out the Hawkesbury City Council's native nursery to get natives for my garden at home (preferably eucalypts) and ended up asking how to become a volunteer there. I found that the nursery...
Right now Everyone is talking about Net Zero 2050 and the Existential Crisis but do we really think about our existence here in Australia?
When I was younger I had a stepmother for 3 years that abused me. She had a mood disorder and was not on medication for the majority of her marriage to my father. What I didn't realise back then was that abuse was all I knew and that she wasn't the only one abusing me in my childhood.
This week has been very difficult for me emotionally as I worry when trust has been broken with toxic relatives, it scares me that there was trust gained in the first place. This time around I briefly gave away my website address. He probably wasn't paying that much attention but keeping privacy from these people is vitally important to me....
I've been through a very interesting couple of months. In the case of navigating my own concept of family and this time it's been both easier and more difficult. In the past month I made one last effort to mend one of my relationships with a biological relative and thus my initial instincts have been proven true once again. This...
Since I was 13 Years old I would write in Diaries for my personal development and emotional wellbeing. Technically I was given a robotic diary that would lock but back then I didn't know how to use it. It was during my Individuation teen years that really called for diary writing and I would write more than just the crushes...
A deeper reading into my works about family violence is that they are about the stages of grief. These themes have been unravelling unconsciously in my work up until today. In my video work But they weren't looking at my hands shows continued realisation of the abuse but also a desire to hide the truth from oneself and from my...
In some respects my practise initially started evolving when I was 9 or 10. My stepmother at the time told me I couldn't keep a diary so I started developing secret autobiographical notes. Initially it was one note. The note said that I hated her. Because she kept retelling her story of how her father let her have a diary...