Margaret Roberts, BULGA 2015 tulle 100cm x 100cm. Shown in Have Your Say at Articulate project space, along with BYLONG 2015 and PILLIGA 2015

Each letter is cut in doubled black tulle, opened-out and laid over each other, so that the place-names of Bulga, Bylong and Pilliga are compressed as unreadable shadows, reflecting the plans to replace the places they represent with open-cut coal mines and coal seam gas fields. Bulga village is to be made uninhabitable by Rio Tinto, the fertile Bylong valley razed by Kepco, and the Pilliga forest and the artesian basin forever contaminated by Santos, and there are many more.

BYLONG 2015

PILLIGA 2015