About the Artwork

Visiting the Derbal Yerrigan by night, under a Bunuru moon, the landscape holds light differently. Limestone cliffs glow as if carrying the day and warm skies exhale in velvety darkness. Built through accumulated printed layers of translucent botanical inks and photo-luminescent earth-pigments, the work absorbs and re-emits light energy, thus shifting with its surroundings — brightening and dimming throughout the day then glowing mysteriously bright by night, in constant ebb and flow. Moonlight gathers across the river and rests in cliffs and trees, where faint presences dwell. The work behaves like the landscape itself: living, breathing, responsive, and quietly changing.