Still Standing
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Still Standing is a series of prints made from an unconventional plate: the foil lining of discarded Tetra Pak milk cartons, rescued from the waste stream and engraved by hand to render the ridge lines and flora of the Blue Mountains.
The process inverts the usual hierarchy of materials. Packaging waste, flattened and stripped back to its inner foil, becomes the printing plate itself. Each incision mirrors the erosion that shaped the mountains scoring and pressure standing in for wind, water, and time. The foil's original creases remain faintly visible, a trace of its first life beneath its second.
The Blue Mountains have weathered fire, drought, and decades of visitation, much like the humble carton enduring its second act as art. Together, plate and subject argue quietly for sustainability: that beauty and worth don't end after a single use.
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