Artist statement: COVID-19 has changed my work practice. Walking alone outside has become my new routine. The uncanny feeling of a deserted city inspired me to produce this work. At times I found myself standing in the middle of what were once busy streets in Melbourne, able to photograph them silent and bare as if the population had suddenly been evacuated. I was drawn to go back and photograph these places again and again. I collated these images around a single recurrent motif that I had noticed in each location, layering the sets of images until they become a vibrating composite image of a collective sensation. This is something to hang on to so that I won’t forget this strange experience once the pandemic is over.
This project is funded by Melbourne City Council.
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