Rinse and Repeat
Time. August 2020
Place. Naarm Victoria Australia
Form. 300px by 300px stills webseries
All rights reserved Amanda Parkinson, 2020
The work acknowledges the traditional owners of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation where this work was filmed and I reside. I acknowledge I am a visitor to these lands which are stolen and continue to be pillaged by colonialism. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging. I actively use my position of privilege to work as an ally for a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's land, culture, traditions and language is restored.
For more than 100 days, Melbourne experienced the longest Corona Virus lockdown in 2020. Locked inside our homes except for four reasons - supplies, care giving, 1 hour of exercise or permitted work - this work documents my own mental health through the process. Unable to leave my one bedroom city apartment without a mask or travel more than 5km, I was bound by an imaginary radius; a necessary border enforced by the government. This is a visual journal capturing snippets of the day and poetic musing.
