Written in the Stars
~ A Wayward Home ~
2025
A Rise in the Local (2025) is a photographic work that marks the precise moment of an astrological Sun-Mercury alignment. Through the foyer windows, streams of orange light from the Sun and violet light from Mercury shine, releasing their energy to stimulate local activities, communication, and domestic travel. A ghostly sailing ship hovers in the foyer, anchored midair with a fish market scene overlaid on the doors. The vessel is both messenger and cargo, an avatar of interactions, news, gossip, and rumour. The overlaid fish market is the economic engine and social arena where information changes hands as quickly as fish or money. The artwork operates as a world, an astrological learning tool and an energy forecast for the Sun-Mercury alignment.
A Rise in the Local
30 x 30cm
Digital photography on acrylic mounting
2025
What's Your Emergency (2025) captures the alignment of Mars and Uranus, channelling their combative energies into our environment and lives. Red (Mars) and white (Uranus) light cascade outside the foyer's two windows, showcasing the energy release. An old red telephone lay on the foyer floor of the home, its receiver askew, indicating a drama so urgent that it required immediate departure. The images on the wall juxtapose each other: the monochrome mural depicts a partial spiritual ceremony designed to harmonise the chaotic forces produced by the Mar-Uranus influence. Superimposed on this mural is a biomorphic image that resembles splattered blood ominously spilling onto the floor, thus emphasising a menacing effect. In this piece, I opted to portray the chaotic aftermath of an unforeseen mishap to underscore the volatile and fleeting influence of Mars-Uranus' energy. This force crashes into existence, leaving behind a deserted scene echoing its swift and dramatic exit.
What's your Emergency
30 x 30cm
Digital photography on acrylic mounting
2025
The relentless hum of the news cycle halts as a breaking news headline flashes on the screen. A figure thrust into the glare of public attention navigates a challenging Moon conjunct Mercury aspect in their Midheaven. Their career and public persona lie bare for the world to see. In Breaking News (2025), an old television set rests in the left corner of the room, and the words "Breaking News" blaze on its screen. Ahead stand four silhouette figures: a camera crew, a news reporter, and the interviewee, poised in anticipation, uncertain whether they are about to deliver a message or be subsumed by one. Meanwhile, a single cloud drifts in the foyer, an ephemeral symbol for the emotional weight placed on the individual and the transient nature of the news cycle.
Breaking News
30 x 30cm
Digital photography on acrylic mounting
2025