Restoration explores sleep. The work maps the spatial memory of the bedroom as a scared space of rest, intimacy and dreaming. The site- specific sculptural installation mediates the interstitial space between what was; the deep territory of a sleeping space, what is: as a site that was radically altered through the trauma and effect of the 2022 flood event in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, and what will be; a new, higher, safer place- a home where the future can be imagined as a site of optimism and creativity. The work seeks to make visible the complex cycles of sleep that bridge the conscious and unconscious, demarcating 1000 stages of sleep as an expression of significance and magnitude.

This work represents an expansion in scale and a shift in installation procedure, with the work suspended so that modules could be independently reactive to air movement in the room.

Restoration was shown as part of a DEMO Collective exhibition, A House is Not a Home, curated by Kasia Jarosz.

RESTORATION

2023, 230cm x 230cm x 150cm, bamboo, acrylic, adhesive

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work, the land of Kombumerri families of the Yugumbeh Language Region, and I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.