Three Janet Frame Zines

‘There were now rows of houses and acres of concrete, while the once wet wooded roadsides were treeless.’

‘I felt I was seeing a new kind of greed for whatever could be touched, measured, seen and priced.’

‘…and no one was saying what or whom the land belonged to before the famous reclamation.’

Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City, 1985, the third part of the New Zealand writer’s autobiography. She had returned to New Zealand after travelling and living in Europe, including England, for several years.

The images are my own photographs of a marginal, self-wilded area, threatened with development, near where I live.

Plants and Text

Ghost Vessels

Eye of the Storm

This body of work was for an exhibition in 2019, an exploration of the liminal space opened up and experience of the uncanny when a person is thrown into a trauma and near death.

Sight + Loss