We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2025

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

My practice explores time through personal perception and recollection. Inspired by literature and temporal theories, my work exists in the space where time and perception overlap. Perception intertwines with time's impermanent nature, and I reimagine this entanglement as sediment accumulating layer by layer through identical intervals and steady tempo. This process of remembering reshapes my temporal perception, allowing new narratives to emerge from durational experiences.

I seek to deviate from the functional aspects of time by stripping away its association with precise measurement. By casting a range of time-measuring instruments in plaster, I transform them into rough, obsolete vessels of memory. They lose their validity, as if they have endured so long that they begin to wear away, becoming bearers of time rather than its agents.

Simin Lin