Unloading (Baucau)

An image of Australian soldiers unloading oil drums from the back of a truck at the forward operating base at Baucau, Timor-Leste. This image is created from multiple photographic images.

The monoprint drawings he calls the Carbon group are composites of digital photographs taken by the artist during his time in Timor-Leste. The works are created by a process which mimics the use of old-fashioned carbon copies. The images are not exact replicas, but drawn freehand from printouts of the digital photographs and traced onto paper. This transfer process gives the resulting works a heightened sense of removal from the events the artist witnessed, so that they become, in effect, an imaginative retelling of these events.