Julia Burns

Presented in the form of a digital, 3-panel fresco projected onto domestic objects, Drifting explores a different sense of time. We watch a memory of self-doubt and loneliness, of a drifting away of two people in a relationship. Undramatic, the scene lulls us by its calmness and slowness.

We are placed within a young couple's house before dawn. We sit on their living room couch and watch them sleep. Time passes like in a Proustian novel; A currawong warbles outside, we hear the sound of the city streets being swept, a car drives by... We are in the present moment of a past memory. Like a fly on a wall, we enter into the lives of these strangers and become weirdly familiar with the deep secrets and doubts which they dare not even tell each other.