Honey LONG and Prue STENT
Artist statement: This work was made on Kokatha country. A performative interaction with an abandoned salt stockpile at the edge of Lake Hart in South Australia. Within this action there was a desire to blur seemingly disparate fields (body, object, landscape) into shifting states of matter in relationship to each other; enhancing feelings of both connection and tension.
Too often we think of landscapes as static. For example, where there have been human interventions, a landscape can transform quickly and dramatically. This area sits on the edge of the Woomera exclusion zone. A major military testing site with a dark history of environmental degradation, the effects of which have directly impacted local First Nations people, their land and its animals.
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