The most exciting thing that happened today was finding out my head is perfectly sized for the bottom of the sink Today is Wednesday/studio play day. Ive been pretty consistent with showing up to the studio for the past 7-8 months. Most of the time is spent working on my laptop, writing applications, planning projects etc. I realised that i wasn’t allowing myself to make stuff unless i was working towards a particular artwork. I always felt like time was running out, and i cant waste time ‘not working’. We all need play time though, and i realise that its not wasted time. This is where the work comes from. Idk maybe i just had too much going on last year. But now i have some more breathing room. So when i was planning out the start of 2025 i made sure to schedule at least one day a week to playyyyyyyy

Day at the studio Was really excited to be able to play again. Ive been so stuck in my head the last few months and haven’t been able to make. Im trying to allocate time to playing in the studio and using my hands instead of my head. 💃🏽🥭 Spent the day playin around with some silicone and sewing and working on a residency application

Around the time of making the feet socks I was looking through my dads old stuff. One of the things I found was this cassette tape with covers by my dads old band. I borrowed a friend’s cassette player and sobbed for days listening to his voice. Shoutout and thank u @anti.bvz for digitising. The headphones in transcript play one of these songs, a cover of Do You Remember? I found it kinda funny how the titles of the 3 songs on the tape which had him singing were kind of relevant to his current situation (late stage dementia). The songs: Do You Remember, Already Gone and Handle with Care. You can listen to the full song in my exhibition, transcript. At @penrithregionalgallery until feb 16.

🦶🏽Ive been working on these ‘feet socks’ for the last few months. I think its one of my favourite works to date. Its one i feel so strongly connected to at this moment. I guess more because of the process of making this work, and where it’s landed me. The work is a pair of silicone feet. The outer shape was made using a mould of my dads feet, with the inner negative space being the shape of mine. The silicone ‘feet socks’ occupy the physical space between him and me. The making of this work parallels my personal process of understanding (or trying to understand) who my dad was. For some additional context: my dad has late stage dementia. Ive always had a complicated relationship with him. It was only after he was diagnosed with early onset dementia a couple years ago that i was able to really start to process my upbringing. It was at this time when i started to be kinda angry with him (in my mind) for the way he was when i was growing up. Its been a gradual process over the last couple of years but my perspective on him started to change. This work was one of the things that helped me repair my internal relationship with him. I started to understand more and more why he was the way that he was. I also started to see the ways that we are similar. More and more i feel like i can understand. I understand him because i am him. Its kinda funny but i feel closer to him now than ever, while he no longer knows who i am. Part of the process of making the work was spending time with him (something ive been finding hard to do). It gave me an excuse to hang out with him while i made moulds of his feet, something i really should do more of while i can. Theres so so much more to say, might write about it in more detail eventually. But yeah this work was something that needed to happen at this time, and im glad ill have this piece of him and me to hold onto after he passes. This work is now showing in my first solo exhibition, transcript at @penrithregionalgallery. Opening event this Friday the 15th🦶🏽