Artist Statement:

Symbiont explores the relationship between sound, sensation, and belonging. Translating musical rhythms into colour and form, the work reflects on home as an embodied experience - home as where the heart is.

Rather than understanding home as a fixed place, this work emerges from listening: to music, to the body, and to the subtle cues that shape emotional memory. Sound becomes a companion, carrying rhythm into the body, where sensation, colour, and material take form. In this way, music opens a pathway back to a felt sense of home - one that is carried rather than located.

 As a child, home was sensory and immediate: the warmth of the day, birdsong from my father’s apiary, the smell of home-cooked meals, bare feet on ceramic tiles, the humidity and layered scents of Asia. These remain as echoes, held through touch, scent and sound. 

Living now in Perth, home shifts - blue skies, dry heat, eucalyptus, family, and the sounds of local wildlife. These do not replace earlier homes but gather alongside them.

This work reflects on how home accumulates through lived experience, shaped by sound, touch, rhythm, and presence. It considers home not as something fixed, but as something felt – arriving through moments of attention and held as lived sensation.