Dust
2 to 28 April 2012

1. Dust 1
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
2. Dust 2
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
3. Dust 3
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
4. Dust 4
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
5. Dust 5
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
6. Dust 6
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
7. Dust 7
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200
8. Dust 8
   archival digital print on hahnemühle paper, 2011
   $200

My studio burnt to the ground a year and a half ago. Much was destroyed in that little building we had made by hand in the bush. A lifetime's collection of tools, memories, and most painfully, many stored artworks - installation works packed down into boxes, drawings in steel cabinets, sculpture in progress. What surprised me was the almost forensic fascination I felt for the remains. Over the following months, I honed in on the site with my camera, documenting the transformation of materials, crawling in under buckled sheets of corrugated roofing to find caves of strange treasures, shattered plaster, molten copper, ashen drawings. I had a voracious need to look and look and look, to take in what had happened. What I found was the beauty that is in the transience of all things.
Alison Clouston, 2012