Lou Whelan, Amorphous - a river in lockdown and beyond (LANDSCAPE 2021)

After months of Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdown, the Birrarung river (indigenous, meaning ‘ever flowing’) in the small mountain town where I live, became a place of peace and reflection. I became intrigued by movement and reflections and abstract views and set out to document my experience. These watery, liminal images evoke deeper contradictions during a time of pervasive uncertainty and solitude, of elusiveness and emphemerality; of different states of being simultaneously, drowning-floating, submerged-emerging, flow-stasis, a contemplation on the phenomenon of that point between life and afterlife. These images form part of an ongoing series commenced eight months ago, documenting the Birrarung (Yarra) river during permitted time outdoors and continuing to Covid Normal and which over time has also become for me a metaphor for living with disability

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