Abstract
Presented in the form of an image essay, the mixed media installation Night for Day (The Owl of Bunbury spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk) (2015) is described and briefly contextualized in relation to more-than-human worlds, local histories and stories, sea level change, and other Anthropogenic trajectories. To create the artwork, the artist explored historical and predicted flooding events in the regional town of Bunbury, Western Australia. She combined, transformed, reconstituted, and rearranged data and material things in a process of investigating how futures might be imagined and anticipated. Representations of southern boobook owls (Ninox novaeseelandiae) made from rainfall maps fly across the installation. Water from Leschenault Inlet (part of Derbal Elaap) was brought into the gallery space. The overall poetics and affective register of material elements of the installation are enhanced by being presented as full spread images.
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