Domestic Connecintg

Over the last 4 years I have been working in remote communities of Australia, often driving and flying the breadth of the country. Most of the time I am looking out windows watching the landscape drift by. This country is still so mysterious to me. And the more I find out, the more mysterious it gets. The Dreamings. The Songlines. The colour and the smells. The noises and the music. It all seems out of this world. For Kartiya, it is still so alien. Being from Melbourne, and talking to a lot of my friends, the outback seems like a scary place. So foreign, and mostly never explored. You see it from a distance in photos and movies, tv reports that dilute and distort the stories and wonder of remote places. These photos are my understanding, or lack there of, of the lands that are the outback. The Never Never. Seen from a distance, the photos mirror back at you, the lands where you cant get to... But it is all still a mystery. But the colours keep calling you back. The Aura locks you in Taken during various flights, criss crossing country. The double refraction of the light thru the Lexen perspex and glass, splits the colour of the light into different paths. It seems as if the land is giving off these colours, the song lines of the outback filling the camera.