About the Artwork

The complex shade of red that is the dirt of the Australian desert is impossible to describe. The endless photographs of on social media show the desire to capture this colour so deeply rooted in our Australian psyche but in our rush to memorialise landscapes in digital form, we tend to miss the essence of a place. We pixelate it, share it and wait for the likes to ping in, but don’t truly experience our surrounds. By juxtaposing the slow process of weaving against a hastily-shot photo, this piece is a metaphor for our increasingly detached interactions with nature.