This work is a direct rubbing, sometimes know as frottage, taken from the floor of a classic Queenslander in Meanjin/Brisbane. It was a repetitive process, rubbing graphite pencil across the surface and transformed from questioning my choice to document the space in such a manual way to becoming a discovery of scratches, dents and traces of the history lived in this house. A documentation of time and presence.

This final 2m x 2m work reflects how spaces hold memories within the materiality of everyday environments and familiar domestic spaces.

Side note: this house was photographed as a part of the Corley collection. The right side of the house is what this work captures: Corley Explorer https://explorer.corley.slq.qld.gov.au/#!/photograph/6169-2466-0015.

Frottage (direct rubbing), 2023, Graphite pencil on polyester. 214cm x 214cm.

Exhibited at Pop Gallery in the group exhibition Printed Reverie.