I think at our core, each of us want to leave part of ourselves behind, our distinct, irreplaceable mark on the world.

When I began Project Brief One, I suspected that it would lead on to an assembled project. I set out to document the places I visited purely because I couldn’t think of any other way to tell my story. I am an only child with no pets. My parents both work and I was far too busy to ask friends to participate, so I had to find a more abstract form of expression than taking photos of a subject, it had to become about something deeper than that. When I began Project Brief 2 I think that was when I hit the eureka moment. My video would be about place and what it means to have a place.

I had always found the idea of connecting to a place foreign, I suppose there was never really a place I connected to or yearned to go to. I never thought of distant countries where my ancestors grew up as my place, that was their place. This video is all about the places I go and the places from which my life happens. One of the videos was taken next to my old school on the way to the bus stop which takes me part of the way into university. And from here a hierarchy was created. The video essentially chronologies the journey I make from the city, to my home, to my home away from home at the Gippsland lakes. All places where, I believe, a part of me resides.

I tried to allow this idea to inform my practise. The way that I created the video itself creating a vintage feel on the train and a more modern digital feel, the further from the city I got, the closer I felt to home, the higher the quality of the footage. I liked experimenting with the look of different film stocks and experimenting with fast motion and drop frames to create an old fashioned look to the footage. This helped to fulfil the Lo-Fi aspects of the brief.