The River City, Eyewitness Document has been selected for the Libris Awards at Artspace Mackay which will be opened on Saturday 11 May and continues until 30 June.
This book documents the 2011 flood in Brisbane. I digitally manipulated photographs I had taken in the Yeronga/Fairfield area showing the river inundating houses and parkland, the
thick residual mud, and the mud covered debris piled up on footpaths. The book is an overall expression of these heartbreaking images and of the horror experienced by the flood-affected residents.
The long brown
expanding structure of multiple concertinas sewn together, suggests the river
itself and photographs of the mud and debris are contained within
the structure, just as the real objects were submerged within the expanding
river. I am hoping that the book will be exhibited as I intended, as this sculptural display is part of the concept.
