Test Installation L and Final Installation R, While you were sleeping, 2024, RMIT

Rock, aluminium flashing, plywood, grass, glue, paint. 

This work began with a story of the floaters.

Floaters are basalt rocks that “float” in the surface soils and subsoils. In basalt areas, subsoils are generally vertic, which means they swell and shrink during the wet and dry seasons. This leads to soil movement which, in turn, leads to the movement of the floaters to the surface. The story of the floaters happened to a person living in a home built on the volcanic plains of southwest Victoria. One night they heard an eerie slow cracking sound, like wood splintering, and came downstairs to investigate and discovered a basalt floater had pushed through the house's floorboards into the middle of the kitchen.

Most of this work was created and presented on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. The Rocks come from Gulidjan and Gadubanud land. I pay respect to their Elders past and present. I acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.