Over some years, I have created a number of different art series, each circling around the themes of refugees, conflict and human suffering. It is one way to make sense of discombobulating events and reflect on my family’s experience as migrants to Australia escaping economic injustice, racism and rising violence.

Today, climate change is displacing more and more people, compromising their security and safety. A reasonable impulse is to look briefly at stories and news imagery as a spectator does but then look the other way.

I think the hand-made still image can be used to look, really look and resolve some action, in a new way. Making art about displacement and placement is, for me, an expression of solidarity.