'The Yellow Jug and other stories'
Beyond our shared human relationships we have our own, private connections with other living things, such as pets and plants, as well as inanimate objects. These connections are quiet and exist in our thoughts and our touch - the way we hold one object differently to another or the response one type of flower will elicit over another.
The yellow jug, a vintage kookaburra kettle once used to boil water for tea, is now an excellent vase. Informed by the lives of the people who held it before me, and of the very different world it was created in, the jug has its own intimate relationship with the flowers that it holds and in turn, with the landscape that holds it.
Devoid of humans, the jug represents both object and subject. The interplay between it, the flowers and place in each photograph tells a familiar story. The series can be read as a whole narrative, or each photograph can be interpreted by the viewer with relevance to their own experiences.
These photographs are allegories of love, lust and loss and these stories belong to us all.
