Water always finds its way.

To tidelines

from desire lines.

To birth

from death.

To now

from then.

Water always finds its way.

a spectral, a chronicle (evidence) is an excerpt of process. The film loops like the tide, revealing stages of the making of the ‘a spectral, a chronicle’ series of copper wire weavings.

The process of weaving was undertaken in watery sites of significance to the artist. The memory of Melukerdee Sea Country is gathered and woven in through contact with the salt and tannin waters and through listening to the sounds of the sea and the stories of the Old People.

It is a spectral, a ghost, an echo both in form and filament. Designed to hold the unseen and unheard of indigenous place memory. It is a chronicle, a factual reading of time and story and it is a record of no time and all time. It is a conduit between us and place, between us and family.

This moving image was produced and edited in collaboration with Beau Stevens.

This work is an extension of to collect with holes in your basket (i), 2023 which referenced the dispersion and attempted erasure of indigenous identity regathered and distilled in a hole(y) basket.