‘Salt/wound’ is an ongoing work that explores the fraught tensions between physical and emotional distance to ancestral homelands, stolen lands we were born on and the stolen lands we now reside upon.
This image is taken in the Cook Islands – one of my ancestral homelands. The photograph was soaked for weeks in cold salt water. While soaking, colours began to bleed and turn pink and salt crusted on the physical image, eating away at the printer inks. The resulting saltwater-soaked image is a nostalgic visualisation of the tensions above: an ache.
