“Lost memories lie in the unconscious strata of mind itself, these dark, rarely disturbed layers that have accumulated, as mould accumulates in a forest, through the shedding of innumerable lives since the beginning of life.’ – Jacquetta Hawkes, ‘A Land’.

My practice engages with the Hauraki Plains as both a site and a metaphor for human intervention in the natural world. Through the use of river mud, swamp water, and reinterpreted historical photographs, I work within and against the conventions of watercolour landscape painting to re-examine settler narratives of progress and possession. The material instability of the medium parallels the ecological and historical instability of the land itself, evoking a space of reciprocity, memory, and ethical reflection.