Early in my PhD candidature at RMIT University, I took a holiday with my family to stay at Carolyn's Airbnb in Byaduk. I was still finding my feet in Australia, having moved here a couple of years earlier with my wife, a local to the area, now living in Melbourne. Byaduk offered a sharp contrast to the city life I was experiencing and the 'old church' that Carolyn had just purchased captured my imagination for its simple ambience and aesthetic. I was struck by the magnitude and presence of the environment, particularly of the wind that seemed to be funelled around the buildings to create a living force, persistent and monumental in its nature.

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When Carolyn started the artist residency program as an investigation of place, I had the opportunity to propose a phenomenological experiment where I could explore the nuanced qualities of a site. My residency began in 2017 and continues as a an ongoing relationship connected across space and time, enabled through the wireless environmental sensing technologies that beam environmental qualities of the old church at Byaduk back to Melbourne. The title of this on-going body of work is Finding Byaduk.

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Read the most recent 2019, paper Finding Byaduk: Field Notes published in the University of Edinburgh Drawing On: Journal of Architectural Research By Design: Here

 

Read more about the intention of my residency:Here

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This work was presented at the Australian Design Research Conference in Sept 27-28 2018.