Kudos acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. They are the traditional custodians of the land Kudos operates on. We create, design, share, and exchange our work and knowledge on this important meeting place. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to any First Nations people who engage with Kudos. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.
| My practice consists of mainly working with the concepts of urban life and industrialisation. My process involves drawing from photographs I personally take of the environment that surrounds me, combined with footage of utilitarian spaces that I alter through code projected onto the drawings which are accompanied by urban soundscapes as well. I mainly work with graphite and scribing or engraving onto sheet metal, however, I have been expanding the materials I work with, particularly shifting to found objects and detritus. My works aim to investigate absence, presence, ephemerality of life, and urban dissonance. @cassiopdiya |
| Trampled by insistent feet, blackened streets, and the notion of an infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing (2026) Interested in exploring the deterioration of life due to urban growth, Trampled by insistent feet, blackened streets, and the notion of an infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing (2026) captures the pervasiveness of urbanisation and its adverse effects on the collective through the recurring motif of deceased birds, creating a dialogue between viewer, image, and trace. The scribed images of birds on the steel panels were derived from real encounters. The projections were individually mapped onto each panel and included footage of birds and people traversing on highways, streets, public transport, and construction sites, aiming to highlight the fragmented nature of life within a post-industrial world. The interactive sound installation consisted of sounds from urban spaces, including construction sites, public transport, and the sounds of birds, which were actualised through experimenting with an Arduino circuit. Working in conversation with the car detritus engraved with overlapping images of urban signage, the works aim to register the birds’ ephemeral, sordid, overlooked forms as a consequence of metropolitanisation. |