Dust Landscapes depicts dust collected from ConFest, a festival held by an alternative healing and spiritual community in the dry landscape of southwest New South Wales, Australia.
Throughout the festival, as participants move around the site, the land is unsettled, and clouds of dust are created that linger listlessly above the ground. The wind stirs the dust particles across the ConFest site, clinging onto festival-goers as they immerse themselves in community rituals and spontaneous happenings.
Extracted dust particles from the site were brought back into the studio and photographed through various processes to create unfamiliar topographical maps. The dust particles act as artifacts of the ‘celestial experience’ of ConFest, mapping the festival’s disorientating, surrendering, transformative and energising qualities.