A STRANGE LOOP

AYANA LOKHANDWALA
CAITLYNN AMORES
LONG NGUYEN
NEVE ELLIOTT

At first glance, the grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plains appear more or less as it has always done; a cascading landscape of monotonous dull golden plains. A haze of soft colours with no real discernible features. The flat land is enlivened only by the breeze rippling across the swathes of dry grasses. Losing interest their eyes blur.

They stand on the road and wait.

They do not see themselves reflected in this landscape, it is too lacking, too ordinary. It verges on ubiquity, on universality, untethered to the notion of Australia; it is unrecognisable in the national canon of outback, reef, eucalypt forest. How could, why would, anyone see themselves, ephemerally or otherwise, as part of these plains? More precisely why would they care about what happens here?

The understanding of our role in the ecological system has profoundly declined. We tend to operate under the notion that the anthropocentric lifecycle sits largely outside of, in opposition to and sometimes in dominion of the ‘Natural’ ecological structure.

It is this separatist idea about humans, others and environment that our project attempts to sublimate. Our proposal intends to reinvigorate this conversation through an interweaving of people within their ecosystem, no longer content with distinctions.

Studio Outline,

Gallery

S1/22, S2/22, S1/23, S2/23,

Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4

A STRANGE LOOP

The understanding of our role in the ecological system has profoundly declined. We tend to operate under the notion that the anthropocentric lifecycle sits largely outside of, in opposition to and sometimes in dominion of the ‘Natural’ ecological structure.

It is this separatist idea about humans, others and environment that our project attempts to sublimate. Our proposal intends to reinvigorate this conversation through an interweaving of people within their ecosystem, no longer content with distinctions.