Navigating the Familiar combines three iconic South Western Australian landscapes. The six metre long composite of the three landscapes is configured to evoke a sense of meandering rather than a single, fixed viewpoint. The length physically encourages slow, sequential exploration, mirroring how memory unfolds over time. The whole becomes a mosaic, a constructed totality assembled from fragments of beauty, mythology, and data.

 

The two artists’ own lifelong movements through these landscapes feed into the piece, suggesting that geography is always co-authored and layered with shared fragments of experience. 

 

The artwork challenges the idea of a singular, objective coast. Instead, it proposes that our comprehension of any landscape is a cognitive patchwork—provisional, relational, and deeply personal.