Favourite Place

“The Needy Garden stems from one of my long-held enquiries about human relationships: We sometimes sacrifice opportunities for genuine connection for wanting to appear ‘cool’, unfazed, don’t show all your cards, don’t come off as needy or try too hard.

So using data of my messages with my closest loved ones, I looked for signs and times where we did reach out, show that we were ‘needy’, displayed affection freely – creating a beautiful, messy, complex garden of all our human emotions in all its glory.”

“I used open source data that I found online, which covers all of the paintings that Bob Ross created over 31 seasons of his TV show.

I was really interested in combining his traditional art style with something more computer-driven, so I created a series of paintings, and using the dataset I created a timeline of those paintings.”

“My data garden is called Lockdown Listening, inspired by the lockdowns in Naarm during the pandemic and the music I listened to during the time.

Each flower represents a song I listened to, and the petals the amount of times I played it. I’m so happy with what I managed to achieve.”

“My project is about the Australian Black Summer Bushfires between 2019 and 2020. I was inspired by a Refik Anadol installation at the NGV Triennial titled Quantum Memories. I think it was really impressive that not only was it visually stunning but it also had data and meaning behind it.”