Every residency begins with attention.
For me, a residency is a way of being present.
I spend time listening, observing and making before deciding what the work should become. Rather than arriving with predetermined outcomes, I allow understanding to emerge through creative exploration.
Making
Making is how I think. Making is how I discover my relationship with the world.
Photography, film, collage, sound, music, movement, writing and participatory practice become ways of exploring. The medium follows the enquiry.
Noticing
Through making and noticing, I begin to have realisations that change how I understand my relationship with a place.
As I pay attention over time, I start to see the wider relationships within it—the connections between people, stories, histories, rhythms and possibilities.
Those discoveries then shape where the work goes next.
Capturing
Some discoveries are captured as photographs. Others become films, songs, publications, installations or participatory experiences.
Sharing
The work returns to the place through exhibitions, performances, publications, installations, conversations and community events. Sharing creates opportunities for reflection, dialogue and new ways of seeing.
The artwork isn’t the conclusion. It becomes part of an ongoing conversation that can be returned to months or years later. New experiences (and sometimes earlier work rediscovered in a new context) become part of the same conversation.