This aerial photograph was captured during a twelve-day journey across Western Australia, crossing vast salt flats and remote terrain. Over 6,300 kilometres, the landscape continually shifted in scale and distance, stretching perception as much as geography.
From the ground, these places felt sparse and minimal. From above, they transformed. As altitude changed, the land revealed unexpected shapes and fields of colour that felt strangely familiar. Faces, fragments of the body, and organic forms began to surface on their own, without staging or digital manipulation.
What appears surreal is simply the result of altitude, mineral chemistry, light, and point of view. Aerial photography has long been central to my practice, but this terrain unfolded a visual language I had never encountered before.
At first glance, this image reads as an abstract landscape. Look again, and something else begins to surface.
That moment of recognition is where Second Glance lives.
