http://iamlearningdisabled.com/america-new-york-85th-street-on-identifying-ourselves/ Part of the group show ‘The way we talk (about it)’, at Brunswick Temporary, 26 Nov to 17 Dec, 2022.

Rampur Hat During the long lockdowns, I often visited the Melbourne General Cemetery, where I walked among the graves in solitude, contemplating the porcelain cameo portraits on the headstones. Over time, I began to document the grave portraits, sentimentally framed by the bouquets left by loved ones. Gradually, I built a photographic archive of these commemorations—an archive of images of images that continues my interest in using the camera’s mechanical reproduction capabilities to transform found images into alternate archives. The series is displayed on 35mm positive slides which rotate through a carousel slide projector creating a flickering archive that highlights the paradox of absence and presence made evident by the medium of the photograph: “Death is [its] eidos,” writes Roland Barthes.

Installation views of ‘Absence, Presence’, 35mm slides, Kodak carousel slide projector, timber, 2020/2021, editions of 5 + AP.
Part of the group show ‘The way we talk (about it)’, at Brunswick Temporary.