4 June

Just one of Bathurst’s stormwater channels that run through the town, collecting run-off. It’s incredible how fast these become raging torrents, even with light rain. Why people end up dead playing in stormwater drains. Bathurst’s project to harvest this water for the town supply is taking forever, mostly because like everything now, ‘community opposition’ groups pop up with every attempt to build or do anything. Social media does that, turns every tiny thing into a fake debate and argument. Do people notice the general anger and aggressiveness out there now? In all things. It’s been a large part of my late-career ambition to show this is a society without a stabilised status hierarchy, forcing people to fight for their status (which is also their identity). Everything is turned into fodder for that fight.