Kate Robertson works with experimental photographic techniques to explore unseen yet felt phenomena relating to healing and connectedness within environmental community contexts. Her experimental approach often lengthens the time it takes to make a photographic work, pushing the boundaries of the medium to emphasise the role of process, feelings and intuition while challenging expectations about what a photograph should be. Celestial body model was created in the artist’s studio in response to a series of deep ecology workshops that looked at the connection between humans and the natural world. Considering the Solar System and ideas around vastness and scale, this body of work conveys planet proportions through simple objects, highlighting, for instance, how big Earth would be if the sun were the size of a melon. Through numerous rounds of re-photographing as well as hand-printing and toning, Robertson has abstracted and flattened her compositions, spending over six months on the creation of each work. In this way, the series challenges the representational nature of photography in order to poetically investigate the universe and our tiny place within it.