Over the last decade, I have collected tumbled bricks from my local beach on Dharawal Country, carried to the sea via creeks from a long-closed brickworks. These industrial remnants, once part of colonial Australia's expansion, have been worn by waves and time, their rigid forms softened into organic shapes, reclaimed by the ocean and reshaped to belong.

I have been thinking about how to honour such resonant fragments, and in 2025 I decided to spend the year exploring how I could collaborate with them to build a body of work while also entering them into various Australian art prizes.