This large scale work is a direct rubbing, or frottage, from the floor of my rental apartment in Woolloongabba, Meanjin/Brisbane. I sat on the floor, somewhere I’m comfortable being, connecting to the cool, solid foundations beneath my feet. I spent hours at a time rubbing over the pine panels with graphite pencil to reveal marks, scratches, dents in the floor from my previous housemates high heels, to create a map of the years of history lived across these floors. It was exciting and therapeutic, slowly developing this large scale index of time and place. I’m drawn to documenting spaces in unique ways that can shift how we perceive and connect with them, using the indexical nature of prints and the materiality of everyday environments. Through these works, I invite viewers to explore the unseen stories etched into familiar surfaces in our domestic spaces and daily lives.

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

Exhibited at Pop Gallery in the group exhibition Printed Reverie.