Sawdust and Water is an exploration of the residual properties of water in relationship to Kandos in mid-west NSW.
Kandos is located on the land of the Dabee tribe of the Wiradjuri People. I pay my respects to caretakers, knowledge holders and elders past, present and future. Materials in this work including a lightning-struck tree and rotting endemic tree species along with footage of Wiradjuri land were gathered from a mountain and a river in this region. Pieces of a wood-staved pipeline were also extracted from roadside areas in the region with care taken to preserve underground animal burrow shelters in the remnant pipeline.
This project was funded by a NSW Artist Grant through the National Association for the Visual Arts and funds from the Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival. Dust and Water was a festival exhibition outcome from research into early 20th Century Australian water infrastructure while artist in residence in Kandos - a regional town with significant cement production, mining and attendant water infrastructure history.