Description
Shot across Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia since 2015, the works in Speaking to the surface of a lake record transient and seasonal formations of salt in ancient river systems and lakes, and different direct and indirect interventions of human activity. Some trace the stagnant remains of paleo channels from the side of the road; others record waterways that travel vast distances across the continent from above. Many of these places have been revisited; days, weeks, years apart. Sometimes change was markedly visible, a red fetid drain transformed into a lush waterway, yellow water to green. Other time scales jostle here too, water tables raised, rainfall altered. In some places agricultural run off turns the lakes acidic, in others eager eyes probe for lithium, and mine for the condiments to go with the next meal.
