PROCESS JOURNAL

june 2025
notes from magpie hill [Ngunawal Country]

lean’s house at lister crescent - 35mm film

may 2025
notes from magpie hill [Ngunawal Country]

At the end of last spring I found a kaleidoscope of dead butterflies (heteronympha paradelpha) on a windowsill in my apartment. A grevillea grows outside the open window and I think the butterflies got lost on their tour around the flowers. A few months on, in the lazy afternoon heat of summer, I find a mason wasp (pison spinolae) in the same spot that the butterflies come to die - this windowsill is an invertebrate graveyard! I say them a prayer, take a photograph on 35mm film, and turn their left-behind bodies into chromatograms. It is my momento mori to the dead insects I encounter on my apartment windowsill.

chromatogram of dead butterfly (heteronympha paradelpha) on my windowsill

chromatogram of dead wasp (pison spinolae) on my windowsill

april 2025
artist residency at Tweed Regional Gallery [Bundjalung Country]