Rise and Fall.

Rise and Fall.

Series

This series of hybrid landscapes meditates on the artist’s identity as a person of Goan Indian origin often living and creating on others’ ancestral lands. Created during residencies at Laughing Waters, Eltham on Wurundjeri country, and at Vytlacil in Upstate New York on Tappan land, these works meld the landscapes the artist witnessed with elements associated with their cultural heritage. Often featuring the artist’s own body in or as part of the landscape, these are allegorical meditations on how cultural identity informs experiences of place and on the artists neo-colonial presence on Aboriginal land.