'First and foremost, it's located in the nub of something that you feel deeply about, and that is shared by others. The construction of towns and how farming works there speaks to a deep history that has propelled agriculture in Europe, and my understanding of the European connection to climate changes, seasons, and how you work with the land came through that. The shifts that are occurring in regional contexts around the world in a Western agricultural context are huge and swift, and farming is stepping out of being industrial into a supremely technological phase. The first project that I took on in that context was combining the notion of Chinese composting houses with 'night soil' with the very Australian notion of the outside dunny.6 We created the work in this vegetable garden area like a little cinema, where there was an animation around composting.' (Publication abstract)