Candles and sticks

Fennel stalk in wax

These candles cannot burn. If they do, then it means that everything will be gone. The fennel stalk (enclosed in wax with an inadequate wick) is a device for thinking about Prometheus, who took fire from the heavens and gave it to the humans so that they would be able to live with some joy…

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Images occur within us

This text–part of my own bigger project “are we coming to an end?”–was written for Art + Australia in 2020. I produced the video for their Event Horizon Symposium in August 2020. 25 minute video, from Day two from the symposium Scroll through to page 70.

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How do we go on?

Are we coming to an end? This question has been on my mind since visiting the island of Patmos in the eastern Mediterranean a couple of years ago. These days it’s a destination for holy pilgrimage and holiday makers. I visited the Cave of the Apocalypse, saw the place where John wrote down his visions,…

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Working on Wurundjeri-Willam land

Much of my work in art is about trying to get inside the act of interpretation. I want to feel and know it as an act. An act that a body does: a body that is what it is because of its semiotic powers: and semiotic powers that are what they are because of the…

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