‘Thresholds’ is a body of photographic, written and installation work that depicts the sacred mystery that is beauty, born through pain and loss.
It’s at the thresholds of life, when the tension of pain and ache of loss somehow give birth to a sacred and beautiful mystery. Life and death are pulled to overlap, creating a new image. One you’ve not yet dreamed of, one forged in the fires of this life and yet soaked in indescribable beauty.
Thresholds
The Princess and the Magic Flute
This piece reminds me of my dad who died from cancer in 2015. Every night he’d come in to say goodnight. We’d lie on my bed and I’d beg him to tell the story of The Princess and the Magic Flute. And each night, he’d make up the next chapter, right out of his imagination.
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Oxygen
My aim with this piece was to make something as common as this Wheatgrass come to life with a prism of colour.
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How to Love
I called this piece How to Love because it was taken in a dark and unexpected corner of a garden. At first glance, it looked like there wasn’t much there to photograph and what was the point when there was no light! But as I looked I saw these tiny flowers. Then I moved around the bush, changing my perspective. I noticed the setting sun far off in the background and when I looked through the lens and brought the flowers into focus, the sun created a surprising amount of bright yellow light. It took as long as the sun took to set to create this photograph and I had to give time to the observation of every little element. I look many photos! And after many failed attempts, this is what happened. And I think it’s rather beautiful.
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Every Morning
Australia is a place of bird song. I’ve camped by the ocean and been awoken by the orchestra of birds filling the morning with their gentle reminder of a new day, a new beginning, a new light. One such bird is the Magpie who sits among the gums at sunrise. I think the Magpie song is one of the most beautiful sounds of Australia.
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In The Waiting
Waiting is hard. Whether you’re waiting in line for an ice cream, waiting for the right job to open up, waiting for your lover to return from overseas, waiting for a lover full stop or waiting for life to be a little less difficult. Waiting is most certainly not a desired posture but if you find yourself here, may the waiting be light, may your body be held and may you know that even in the waiting, there are many opportunities for life.
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Butter Delight
I remember being so excited when I found these tiny flowers nestled in amongst the ferns. The light was perfect, the composition was perfect, everything was perfect! It was real magic and my soul sang.
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Flurry
This is one of those times where I was genuinely surprised by what I saw through my lens. I wish I had a photo of this with what the naked eye saw, just to show you the difference. This image has many layers of foliage creating the blur effect and then the background light adding it’s flair.
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Meeting Silence
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Blue Sunday
I’m always stopped in my tracks when I see a Silver Princess (Gungurru). The day I took this, I’d had no luck with any of the other photos I’d tried and then I looked up to see these branches reaching across the blue sky. Persistence pays off.
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Curiouser and Curiouser
“I am not crazy. My reality is just different from yours.” The wise words of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. What reality are we choosing to create, to live and to shape our world? It’s a hugely powerful thing, the mind, and we play a role in capturing its thoughts and turning them into something. Have fun creating!
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Slowly
If I haven’t responded to your text message it’s not because I don’t care; it’s because I can’t keep up with the speed of it all and I’m trying (against all odds) to live slowly. I’m trying to give everything the time it deserves. I’m trying not to multitask and I’m trying to care less about dropping the ball! In fact, I say drop all the balls you can, move to the country, start your own private garden in which you’ll grow all your own food (slowly of course) and forget to wear shoes most days while wearing a very cool pair dungarees. Okay, so maybe we can’t all do that. But we can at least look at this photograph and be reminded that the more speed we live with the more blurred it all becomes.
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Somewhere
The name of this piece is the first word of one of my favourite songs, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. As a kid I was always dreaming of things that were far away magical lands full of possibilities. And as an adult, I’m dreaming about things that are far away magical lands full of possibilities…for the most part. But life has certainly hit hard and threatened to steal that imagination. This piece reminds me to keep dreaming.
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It Is Good
In the creation poem of Genesis 1, after everything created there is this line… “And God saw that it was good.” From the beginning, the Creator declares their creation good. Now I’m not saying I’m God, but, as an artist I’m challenged by this. If I believe myself to have inherent goodness because I’m God’s created one, then my work can also reflect this. The problem is, my creation poem often spouts the line… “And it sucks.” This photograph evokes in me the gift of that first garden and of knowing that my worth is not held in me alone but I am worthy because of the goodness of my Creator. And because I know this, I can look at my art and say… “it is good”.
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