| In the Vein | |
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Whilst
most Australians cling to the coastline, rural communities and agriculture
cling to the river. Long after the floods and then the dry, there is a trace, peripheral veins and bruising. Matter rising from below. A stain. Then there is the encroaching grid: those wonderful abstractions composed of harvest and industry, visually seductive from the air, beyond their implications for the land below. Topography and the survey, revealing the corporeality of the landscape of the Murray Mallee region has preoccupied me since the mid 90’s, and continues to inform my work. |