A research project of the Australian visual aesthetics amidst the 2019-2020 bushfires. Exploring and highlighting the alchemic and transformative language of the landscape I have learned to adopt into my photographic style.
Pictured are digital, colour field notes from January 2020 along the A15 interstate highway both before and after rain. In returning to the same sites I witnessed the transformation of a drought-stricken landscape, brought into a new phase of life after just two days of rain.
Towards the end of this same solo trip into the fire-torn landscape, I spent time foraging recovering bushfire zones for tangible representations of transformation and recovery. Resulting in the wet plate collodion 'portraits' of burnt cedar wood and elemental flora.
