Stand Still and Smile

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2019 - 22
Single channel video + 17 inkjet prints.
Created with Fleur Kilpatrick.
Supported by Red Barn Farm and the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society.

Install photos from ‘Window Dressing’, The Contemporary Geelong x Third Space Gallery + Digital.

There is a growing push in the realm of eco-law to grant legal personhood to landscapes and natural areas, in much the same way that we treat corporations as legal subjects. In considering what it means to crash together ecological awe and anthropomorphism, Fleur and I worked to create a series of photographs and videos that eschewed the conventions of landscape photography, and instead used the tropes of portraiture to document residency areas in Cundare, Victoria and Springbrook, Queensland. Much like human subjects, the landscapes vary in their willingness to be photographed and their attitude to the camera.