Science of Fire

Time. June 2020

Place. Kurnai Nation of the Brabralung People (Sarsfield, East Gippsland)

Form. 5K Audio-Visual installation, 16:9 landscape photo essay & 16:9 macro photo essay.

This work was made in collaboration with Kamilla Musland for a capstone subject in the Master of Media progam at RMIT. The work is specifically made for Federation Square's 5K digital facade. The work acknowledges the traditional owners of the land, the Brabralung People of the Kurnai Nation where this was filmed and the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation where this work is shown. I acknowledge I am a visitor to these lands, and pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise these lands are stolen and continue to be pillaged by colonialism.

We grow out of death. When Mother Nature needs to restore; she burns, she births. Wiping all that can’t withstand her wrath. She breaths in. Oxygen colliding with carbon. Fire is the result of combustion; a chemical process that ignites when nothing has room to move. Wild embers licking land. Nature reorders humanity. From space we are on fire. Millions of hectares burned. Ripped and ravished. Hollow as hell. Life reduced to ash. We fight against it. Our hoses at the ready, but did you know fire needs water. Vapour hovering over space. Because when Mother Nature needs to restore; she burns, she births from below.

Sample video only, full works available for exhibition

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