"Sunbaker is almost like the innocence of the Australian landscape, the sun-worshipping body, and then there's this type of (Pearl John) body that's like it's washed up on shore," she says.
"Nonda and I got quite interested in this and we started to talk about the only people who can arrive (in Australia) now are like dead bodies because then they're not going to cause any problems. We had this whole rave then about what Australia is now, about Tampa and detention centres."
•"I thought it would be really interesting to convert a Rodin or a Henry Moore into flesh. Would that change our mind about it because it's no longer aesthetic? It's getting on the edge of the grotesque or aberrant, rather than the pleasing."
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