Written In The Light is an exploration of light and the way it moves through the space of day to day life. Specifically within one Queenslander house. The work celebrates the banal, and aims to capture and extend the seemingly unimportant moments in life.
Light is etherial and aesthetically beautiful, focusing our attention to the path it traces. Light has a transient presence, just like the intermittent parts of our lives which weave together the milestones and significant moments. Without our rhythms, and our quiet moments we would never realise our milestones. Shouldn’t the moments that make us who we are, and forge our history be celebrated? Light too is rhythmic, it is reliably methodical and symbolically represents the beautifully ordinary moments of day to day life.
The home is commonplace, yet that is what makes it a universal experience. It is the place where we live the most intimate moments, where memories are made, and remain. The solidity of the structure is forcibly changed, weathered and scarred by the people who live within it. This is the story of a singular building. It is a rental property now, but has been standing since before the Second World War. Many lives have lived within the walls of this house, and have left behind evidence of their inhabitancy. It is my house, I tell the story, and I am apart of the story.
The photographs are a quiet personal landscape. They are about undetectable moments, captured. The house and the objects within it ground us in the present, focusing our attention on the remains of a moment past. Minimalist images encourage the viewer to trace their eyes over the finest details, extending the moment.
