The sea returns what we discard. In doing so, it exposes a quiet and unsettling cycle. Reshaped by time and tide, these fragments carry the marks of use, abandonment and erosion, yet acquire an unexpected, austere beauty.
The less recognisable they become, the more compelling they appear. Once objects of convenience, they return as altered relics, suspended between utility and ruin, human intention and natural transformation.
Rendered in black and white, their surfaces are examined with almost forensic clarity. Stripped of colour, every fracture, abrasion and scar becomes a trace: evidence not only of passage, but of consequence.
Initially found along the Italian coastline after winter storms, the project now continues along Australian shores. Different oceans, same return. Geography changes; the cycle does not.
What appears in these photographs is only what remains visible. What survived long enough to return, to be found, to be photographed.
And what of the rest?
The question is unavoidable. So is the answer.
Return To Sender shows only a fragment of a much larger dispersal, one that extends far beyond the shoreline and far beyond what the eye can see.
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