Artist statement, 1998Following the deaths of my brother Lindsay in 1994 and my father in 1996, I felt overwhelmed by grief, incapable of going on, afraid to consider a future, the weight of loss preventing me from doing anything other than looking back over my shoulder, for that which I had missed... So I returned to my childhood home, the house built by my father and mother, the place which sheltered the residue of my earliest memories. I returned to Perth, in Western Australia, on a journey which not only covered a huge distance in terms of geography, but also time, both in the immediate sense of turning back [the] clock from Eastern Standard Time, to the more ethereal notion of retracing shadows.