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Phosphene
Definition: The hallucination behind the eyelids caused by pressure or absence of light.
Phosphene considers a screen's purpose untied to a viewer.
Translating a screen's thoughts and images, it observes by merging found footage with external footage of digital displays in their surroundings. Contrasting the rapid modernisation of Beijing with the vacant landscapes within Inner Mongolia.
The screen without a viewer is resituated as a mirror, replaying an inherited reflection of the society and structure they are installed or displaced within.
The film and sculpture were displayed at the Inside Out Museum in Beijing, and public spaces in Melbourne, KINGs artist run gallery, and Testing Grounds next to the NGV in Southbank.
Downpour
'Downpour' is a meditation on 'white guilt' and a critique of colonisation's misguided good intentions, highlighting that Aboriginal communities in Australia still lack access to clean water.
The film follows a white man carrying a solar-powered water fountain in an Elizabethan style, paralleling the route of explorers Burke and Wills.
Through this absurd journey, the film underscores the lack of contextually relevant support for Aboriginal communities in the desert.
The film was unplanned; the footage was captured along the way, depicting the ill-prepared man's struggle, bare feet on hot asphalt, and the unrelenting backdrop of the Australian desert eroding the objects of colonial civilisation slowly.
After the Tone
'After the Tone' is a film and sculpture on joblessness. For many young adults, a "proper job" defines identity as a capitalist norm.
The film follows a character who, after losing their job, drifts aimlessly with their belongings in an empty city. Shot between 2 and 5 am in Melbourne, the absence of people shows the city as purposeless.
The film's sole proof of current human life is a 5-metre neon sign suspended over a commuter freeway. The neon work invites calls and is connected to a live number. During the exhibition, the film loops, mirroring 9-5 monotony, with confused public calls layered as audio. It won a national prize upon its 2017 release.
Mind (Animation)
'Mind' was shortlisted for Victoria's 'Top Arts'. A charcoal stop-motion that uses sound and visuals to take the viewer on a journey through the monkey mind of humans.
Inspired by the quote: 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man', Samuel Johnson.
The animation has thousands of hand-drawn frames with no computer effects.
Caution contains strobe-like lights and loud sounds.
