The Birdsong is Deafening is an exploratory visual narrative that contemplates the endlessly shifting landscape between memory, loss and place. It reflects upon the relationship I have to my hometown of Cairns and the fragments and in-between spaces of a multicultural identity. Sifting through the detritus of my own memories, this work is as much a solitary meditation as it is a collaboration with the land, its creatures and those closest to me. It hovers in the intimate corners of a family home or the bend of a creek – steeped in the poetic sentiments places often recall in us. The journey is non definitive; it has no ending or beginning and sits somewhere between fact and fiction in perpetual dialogue with a world that is real and imagined, familiar and unfamiliar, here and there. Pulled along by this melancholic pulse of remembering and forgetting, it calls into question photography as a memory-making device and its ultimate failure to capture the complexities of our human condition.
Untitled, 2020
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Untitled (salmon), 2020
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Untitled, 2020
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Untitled (morfars träd), 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled, 2019
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Untitled (Imogen), 2019
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Untitled (cake), 2019
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