Sky Memory: Beneath a southern sky.

Quite often, when meeting a visitor from the Northern Hemisphere, while on their first visit to Australia, they remark on the light, surprised at just how bright it is, in the cities in particular, with all the glass and steel and chrome, the sun glare bouncing off those shiny surfaces. Without sunglasses a dull ache develops behind your eyes and you can quickly acquire the great Aussie squint attempting to cut the light back. It’s hard to look at things; they waver in the heat and the glare, lift your face and risk sunburn and eye strain, things appear briefly on the edge of your vision, sometimes you’re not sure if you actually saw it at all, it’s just a memory,. A far cry from the soft and gentle conditions often found in the Northern Hemisphere. Drawing on the idea of sun inspired visual memory; this series seeks to place the viewer in a position where they can stimulate and recall a memory of objects and sights, and create an eidetic image of past visual experience whether real or imagined.