Queensland

The series A is for Ambulance conveys a journey through primal themes that occupy the mind, spanning encounters with characters and circumstances that may evoke latent belongings, to scenarios that generate unrest and recoil. These encounters take place against white landscapes that can be both luminous and hazy, against settings of unanchored space that manoeuvre between sublime light and blurred indistinct detail.

Crucially and repeatedly, it is the story of oblivion that visits the A is for Ambulance series. Oblivion is portrayed as the terrain where detail of circumstance and intention is unidentified, where interpretation is left to instinct and association from past experience, be they memory, rumour or superstition. The images offer a scope to consider where we stand relative to reoccurring themes of emergency, freedom and control, yet suggest that despite our perceived self importance, actions will be dissolved by time, like tracks blown away by the wind.

Digital long exposures and experimentation with motion have been used to replicate movement, to simulate a hasty survey of the surrounds or an attempt to hold an object in view as it fades into the distance. The images in A is for Ambulance employ a range of tonal variations on white, using warm and cool tones to call up different emotions from the white. The tones may offer a subtle accompaniment to interpretation of the objects, scenes and encounters depicted within the images.