Everything at its highest is always something else, 2022
Digital video with sound 2.42mins
Everything at its highest is always something else, investigates the nature of photography as a medium and as a means to experience place at a distance.
When standing at the base of Purlingbrook Falls on the land of the Yugambeh people, I was overwhelmed by the sound, wind and intensity as liters of water pounded over rocks. Experiencing nature as the sublime, my first response was to pull out my phone to capture it. I attempted to document this experience for later viewing. Perhaps then, with the distance of time and space, I might make sense of this overwhelming feeling. Mediating the experience, I could move out of the present to the future... That is until I noticed droplets of water landing on the phone camera lens, distorting the image, like aging film. Was the image disappearing or being revealed? I became immediately present in the moment, only the subject of focus had changed.