This was filmed in the Adelaide Park Lands, inspired by their trees, nature and a desire to merge within them.

I am constantly fascinated and mesmerised by the movement, ease and strength of trees, to the point of wanting to become a tree in some way. In Destiny as Tree, also motivated by a Guildhouse FUMA collections project where I discovered Mike Parr’s 1971-72 instruction-based works, Notebooks (volume 1 & 2) and 150 programmes and investigations; short or very detailed typed instructions that ranged from ambiguous, to violent, to humorous.

These instructions prompted the creation of my own directives, provocations and ideas for performances and an opportunity to embrace profoundly held intimate fantasies such as becoming a tree and bring them to fruition.

Taking my place in the Park Lands as a branch of an Acacia pendula swaying in the breeze.

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