Untitled/Eastwood, 2022

‘Untitled’ is a non-specific and common title; Eastwood is a suburb on Dharug Country, named after an Irish settler, now with a majority population of Chinese ancestry. Untitled/Eastwood asks questions surrounding photography’s duplicitous nature. This work relies on methods of trickery and ambiguity to pilfer established ways of seeing and self-legimitise my emerging practice. I borrow museum language, present one image as two forms under two authors, and join the unrelenting current of images—duplicating through time and space, through many eyes and hands. Is the photo original or stolen? Is the work an homage or appropriation? Is the image mine or his?

Untitled/Eastwood, 2022, digital print, dye sublimated print on aluminium, wooden support, foam core, dimensions variable. Pari, Sydney, 2023. Image by Document Photography.

Untitled/Eastwood, 2022, digital print, dye sublimated print on aluminium, wooden support, foam core, dimensions variable. Pari, Sydney, 2023. Image by Document Photography.

Untitled/Eastwood, 2022, digital print, dye sublimated print on aluminium, wooden support, foam core, dimensions variable. Pari, Sydney, 2023. Image by Document Photography.

Installation detail, Pari, 2023.