Day Zero, 2019

This work explores the degradation of the Australian landscape from one of our country’s most significant threats: drought. Images collected from Google Earth expose the declining health of the waterways of the Murray-Darling Basin over the past four decades. In juxtaposition to this visual data are lumen prints created by taking darkroom paper into the physical world and exposing them to the elements of these locations affected by drought. The analogue lumen prints are a direct trace of the state of the climate combined with Google Earth's evidence of the land under pressure, undergoing dramatic changes in short periods of time.

I want this piece to be both artful and insightful, commenting on the state of our climate but also being mesmerising in aesthetics.