Isa haual (On His Father’s Grave) [2017-19]
digitally printed and handwritten zineThis zine was conceptualised back in 2017 during a trip down the Monaro Highway. I was thinking about graves, burial sites, people’s memory in the landscape and the hundreds of spring flowers that were soon to blossom after the ski season. Looking out the window of my mum’s Subaru, at two sides of an infinite highway, I noticed a landscape demarcated by agriculture & crown lands - fencelines, boundaries, roads and electrical utilities, I thought about land lost and if the earth could speak how would it talk. By layering up multiple translated editions of ‘Kalevipoeg’ I was curious to seeing where the creators took their own liberty whilst seeing if there is a definitive truth that can be averaged out through opposing texts and connecting that with this duality found in our Australian landscape.
