About

At first glance, the country of THE ABORIGINAL ROBOT series seems to have been entirely abstracted into a settler colony’s factor of production.

Inputs = Native Land + Labour + Native Elimination + Capital

One canvas grids up the country as per map into a territory for extraction and evisceration. Another shows an oil or gas rig, its drill bit dripping gore. The incarnadine landscapes are assuredly Surrealist (think Leonara Carrington rather than Dalí) and also remindful of Boe’s landscapes responding to the 2020 bushfires on K’gari in her 2021 exhibition K’gari means paradise in Butchulla. …