His whole life he’d dreamed of tidal waves, especially when frightened or overwhelmed. So when Jeffrey left his fox body, in a flooded river, he floated out over that gigantic amniotic ocean, and it lifted to meet his gaze, as if saying ‘you are known’.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram sketch. Drowned fox cub with developers, photochemistry, chlorides activated to dendrites using an electric plate, and diluted inks on fibre paper. Exposed 22 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 46cm (editions of 10)

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Marvin meets his friend Judith for the last time, over a desert that doesn’t exist, wearing the form of a rabbit.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Two dog-killed baby rabbits, photochemistry, household chemicals (turmeric, vegemite, salt and coffee) on fibre paper. Exposed 32 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 45cm (editions of 10)

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Jemima, in her new body, creates galaxies in the Boötes Void, near Corona Borealis

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Front paws of a fire-killed kangaroo, seeds and crayon on fibre paper. Exposed 22 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 43cm (editions of 10)

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Leaving the body doesn’t frighten smaller birds, they’re already almost weightless – but Cassandra, wind breathing through her feathers one last time, hesitated

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre, drawing. Smoke-killed superb fairy-wren, photochemicals, wax, chalk and vegemite on fibre paper. Exposed 27 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 52cm (editions of 10)

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As Marcus flies over Canberra in the body of a marsupial mouse, the universe appears as a mirror– stars above and below, like a giant glittering book, in which everything is written twice

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre. Smoke-killed marsupial mouse, wax, paint, crayon, oil, household chemistry and photochemicals on fibre paper. Exposed 22 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 57cm (editions of 10)

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Rose had lain more than 1800 eggs during her time in a body. Twelve fledglings had hatched, grown, and vanished into adult lives. So when death came, in the early hours of frost, she welcomed it as a friend- tumbling across the sky, uncomplicated and free.

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram. Guineafowl fallen to old age and photochemistry on fibre paper, exposed 31 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 51cm (editions of 10)

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Olive slips between worlds, in the company of river trees.

Lumachrome Glass Print, chemigram. Fallen satin bowerbird on fibre paper with photochemicals. Exposed 39 hours with electric current run over the plate.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 53cm (editions of 10)

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After bushfires, Joani ascends across the south coast, lifting tiny birds in her wake.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Smoke killed Magpie, superb fairy wren, cuckoo-shrike, reed-warbler and pardalote, with grass seeds, wax and photo chemicals, on liquid light coated watercolour paper. Exposed 24 hours under perspex.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 47cm (editions of 10)

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All the dead night spiders, flying around in new bodies, over a bioluminescent sea.

Lumachrome glass print and chemigram. Eight dead huntsman spiders with copper chloride and acid on fibre paper. Exposed 24 hours with electric current.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 53cm (editions of 10)

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For those born in captivity, only imaginary oceans exist. Leaving their bodies in the lab, three snake-food mice follow Venus back toward sky, above a glimmering inner sea.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram painting. Three frozen snake-food mice, photochemistry, oil paint, human hair, crayon and chalk. Exposed 26 hours on fibre paper in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 54cm (editions of 10)

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William wrapped in starlight and smoke, over North Black Range, in the last halo of bushfires.

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram. Smoke-killed honeyeater, seeds, sticks and vegemite, on fibre paper. Exposed 22 hours in spring light, under marked perspex.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 43cm (editions of 10)

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Knowing their loneliness, Helené, child of the Sun, visited the humans’ garden. But they shouted “snake” and cut off her head. So the Sun turned her back on them, and their garden vanished into ice and night.

Lumanchrome glass print, cliché-verre. chemigram. Decapitated baby brown snake, household chemicals, wax, resin, glass marbles, on fibre paper. Exposed 32 hours in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 44cm (editions of 10)

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Ingrid resurrecting over Clyde Mountain,in the company of regenerating grass trees and ferns

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Smoke-killed hen, seeds, twigs, soil, charcoal, ink and crayon on fibre paper. Exposed 26 hours in winter light with an electric current run over the plate.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 57cm (editions of 10)

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Carmen’s black hen crossing the gulf between worlds, like Eurydice

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre with drawing. Black hen fallen to old age, crayon, wax resist and gold chlorides on fibre paper. Exposed 31 hours in extremely humid conditions in a plastic wrapped geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 57cm (editions of 10)

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Olibart had not been in a body long, so when he dropped his form, in a blaze of oncoming traffic, he stretched himself gloriously across the night sky in Vulpecula, sacred constellation of foxes.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Road-killed adolescent red fox, dandelion seeds and sand on fibre paper. Exposed 36 hours under marked perspex in a geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 43cm (editions of 10)

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Lilith was old and overweight – even climbing from the coop was difficult. But a kind faced girl had loved her – and when she left her body, that love gave her wings.

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre, drawing. Chicken fallen to old age, sesame seeds and crayon. Exposed 28 hours under perspex coated in copper chloride crystals.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 45cm (editions of 10)

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Valerie had been a wombat so briefly, she lifted easily into the sky, in a membrane of light.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Smoke-asphyxiated wombat joey, sesame seeds, grass tree resin, eyeliner and photochemicals on fibre paper. Exposed 32 hours in a plastic covered geodesic dome.

Editioned prints, 70cm x 42cm (editions of 10)

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Leaving his wheelchair, Emmanuel drifts over Canberra in the body of a jewelled shrike-thrush (for Emmanuel Nunes, 1941-2012).

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Roadkill Grey Shrike-Thrush, seeds, liquid-paper, stalks and petals on fibre paper. Exposed under marked perspex, 26 hours in rain light.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 56cm (editions of 10)

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There are strange ones among us, with fragile eyes and wild hair, just transiting the world. Try not to love them. Steven, wrapped in night, already stars by the time we find his body.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram (with current). Roadkill blind joey, sesame seeds, blood, acids and chlorides under current, on fibre paper, 32 hours under marked perspex.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 56cm (editions of 10)

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There are invisible spider strings connecting us, over time and space, to everyone we’ve ever loved. At the moment of his death, Maxwell, dropping his kookaburra form, follows his Grandmother’s string back into that star Country.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Hail-killed kookaburra, vegemite, wax, seeds and resin, on fibre paper. Exposed 32 hours in autumn light. Details accentuated with eyeliner and white crayon.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 62cm (editions of 10)

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Ruth remembered the lit highway, then dark. And in that darkness she was singing, throwing out song like a rope, then following it up, earth pulling away – a song connecting bird and star and land. Everything splits, in the end, becomes tangled in stars.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Roadkilled Red-tailed black cockatoo, liquid paper, grass seeds and metal chlorides on fibre paper. Exposed 32 hours under marked perspex in desert winter conditions.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 66cm (editions of 10)

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Albert, electric in moonlight, passes one last time above the stick insect tribes.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Roadkill giant stick insect, paint, pine needles and cotton wool on fibre paper. Exposed 24 hours in tropical light.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 53.5cm (editions of 10)

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Drifting through Draco, Gwen assumes the form of a Bush Stone Curlew for the last time.

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram. Roadkill Bush Stone Curlew, seeds, mineral salts, eyeliner, on fibre paper, exposed 32 hours in winter light.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 67cm (editions of 10)

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Matthew was scared of dying, but when the firestorms came, when all the hollows filled with smoke, and the horizon glowed, he followed the other bandicoots, softly, into stars.

Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre. Smoke-asphyxiated bandicoot, sand, ash, dirt, copper chlorides, on fibre paper, exposed 32 hours in low uv conditions, natural light.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 49cm (editions of 10)

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Two tiny birds and a frog return to their ancestors, over Black Mountain, in a month of drought, fire, hail and plague.

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Three prints collaged together. Hail killed Eastern Yellow Robin and White-throated Gerygone, smoke-killed Pouched Frog, with acacia seeds, on fibre paper. Exposed, respectively, 26 hours, 22 hours and 15 hours under builders plastic, in autumn light.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 52cm (editions of 10)

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Zoe descends to comfort her daughters, in a burning country

Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Smoke killed baby tiger snake on fibre paper with seeds and honey (for the stars – constellation lines drawn on with pencil) and glass plate. Exposed 32 hours in rain and bushfire smoke, then rubbed with charcoal from the burned trees.

Editioned prints, 80cm x 76cm (editions of 10)

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