The bog has been recording and preserving for millennia, storing pollen, plant matter, and organic memory in layers of peat that accumulate at one millimetre per year. Photography, by comparison, is a recent technology for preservation. Yet both function as what Karin Sanders calls "prosthetic laboratories of memory," external systems that record what would otherwise disappear.
Intervals brings these two systems into direct collaboration. Walking through Cloonbar Bog, I carry a camera programmed to make an exposure every 23 seconds. I don't look through the viewfinder. I don't press the shutter. The camera records on its own schedule as I move through the landscape.
The resulting images document moments I didn't compose, perspectives I didn't select, encounters between place and technology that occurred without my conscious direction. What emerges is neither documentation nor subjective interpretation, but something generated through withdrawal - a photographic practice built on relinquishing control rather than exercising it.
