Since I have moved to Sydney I have been staying in spare rooms at various friends' places. It's been three months and I have finally found a permanent home. But for sometime I was in the inner west suburb, Stanmore, which sits right directly in the flight path of the airport, the sound and sight of the planes happen from early in the morning to late at night coming from both directions. I felt a strange connection to these planes comings and goings, the way they never stayed in one place, their movement became my constant.
Sometimes when I would be alone in the house in Stanmore, I would open the door, go out on the balcony, look up and just watch them pass by.
Look Up (2014)
Other works by Talia Smith
Talia Smith
A Long Distance Relationship (Parts 1 to 3) (2017)
A Long Distance Relationship is a year-long video project that attempts to make sense of the emotional and physical distance between the past, present, and the future.
Talia Smith
The light between two points (2018)
The Sydney-based artist and their mother in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland each film the day’s sunset from their respective homes, as a way to bridge the distance between them.
Talia Smith
The Ocean is a Place (2019)
The Ocean is a Place explores the complexities of history—whether real or imagined, and the layers of trauma that can be passed down through generations.
