Sunburst

A series tracing queerness and transformation through the Australian landscape - coastal erosion, regrowth after fire; bodies and country in constant becoming.

This series was made across regional and rural Australia, including the coastal town in Victoria where I grew up. The photographs place queer figures within the landscape, exploring the relationship between identity and place, particularly the ways both resist fixed form.

The Australian environment is always mid-transformation: coastlines eroding and rebuilding, bush regenerating after fire, floodplains filling and receding. These cycles carry their own kind of magic - a spiral logic in which change is not loss but return, not rupture but regeneration. The project understands queer identity through the same rhythm. Bodies shift and re-form. Country shifts and re-forms.

Queerness here is understood not as deviation but as attunement - a heightened sensitivity to transformation, fluidity, and the sacred potential of change. Where rigid categories of identity and form struggle against the nature of things, queerness moves with it. The land, in its constant becoming, mirrors and affirms this. To be queer is to already understand something ancient about the world: that nothing is fixed, that dissolution is generative, that shifting form is not loss but aliveness.