Jya-Ruby Nation

I am concerned with where the sea washes onto the sand, germinating banksia trees and how a shell is a home. Spaces of movement, ambiguity, transition and in-between provide generative and healing spaces for me. Like the growth of a banksia in the aftermath of fire, cycles, memory, temporality, rhythm, and interconnections are explored in my practice through processes of animation and printmaking. I reconfigure sequences, layers, frames, and pacing, interrogating a linear sense of time and highlight the experiential quality of memory that is fragmented from a disconnection to land via social and cultural inheritances in the colonised context of so-called Australia. Using framing devices such as full bleed prints and layered animations, I emphasise what is left out and blurred between frames, disorienting and re-orienting narratives and viewers. With recurring motifs and processes, my work is self-referential and instinctive. I find an abundance in the in-between.