Celestial Bodies
Series includes:
-Street projection, 3 channels
-16mm film
-Still images
-Poem
Series includes:
-Street projection, 3 channels
-16mm film
-Still images
-Poem
A new series which ties together the sea and the cosmos as vast bodies that never touch. It is a poetic attempt to embrace glittering spectral bodies; at once our own and all else born of dead stars.
This work also includes a 16mm short film and an accompanying poem:
An ascension and sinking, swells
conjured between the divine
and the dark. The Two together apart
are a Sisyphean attempt
bigger than your house,
to posthumously finish building
a 55 foot skeleton, a boat frame.
Here, Fata Morgana breathes.
Due diction, a spectral fiction starts
in a ship's absence and ruin.
Atmospheres and celestial bodies never touch
the sea, but they swallow the vessel.
This work also includes a 16mm short film and an accompanying poem:
An ascension and sinking, swells
conjured between the divine
and the dark. The Two together apart
are a Sisyphean attempt
bigger than your house,
to posthumously finish building
a 55 foot skeleton, a boat frame.
Here, Fata Morgana breathes.
Due diction, a spectral fiction starts
in a ship's absence and ruin.
Atmospheres and celestial bodies never touch
the sea, but they swallow the vessel.
16mm film, shown Feb 20, 2024 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image; as well as Pugnant Film (Greece); Gertrude Street Projection Festival; Federation Square; Bunjil Place; Overshare Festival; Not Fair Art Fair; The Brunswick Green with Kenneth Anger retrospective; and with artist run film labs in Chile and across Europe.
Music by Cloud Tangle.
Four selected film stills; limited edition of 10:
From top:
Head Rush Sea Swell, 2023.
16mm film still, digital print 21 x 29cm.
A Premonition for a Wooden Horse and a Golden Goat, 2023.
16mm film still, digital print 21 x 29cm.
Your Skin is Made of Stars, Lips Made of Protea, 2023.
16mm film still, digital print 21 x 29cm.
Sailor’s Warning, 2023.
16mm film still, digital print 21 x 29cm.
