Throughout the course of The National I was also Carriageworks' inaugural writer in residence working on Conversations and Correspondence. The six exchanges that unfold within Conversations and Correspondence were spurred by photographs from All the violence within this and In the national interest, and together reveal part of a relational constellation of people and place that underpins my practice as a whole, and these images specifically.

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The texts were progressively published on the Carriageworks Journal:

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• Trespassing with Chris Griffiths and David Newry

• Relations with Narelle Jubelin and Diana Wood Conroy

• Gluttony with Mona Bhan

• Impossibilities with Jazz Money

• Tensions with Kush Badhwar

• Wit with Ross Gibson

While we do not always discuss the images directly they are, in each case, a common point of departure—forging paths to innumerable destinations.

We speak through agendas of development and colonisation and leisure, coursing through our lives and the places we hold dear. We speak of viruses and airports and tourism, of altered ecosystems and large dams and jinns and police, of gold mines and gravel pits and missed communications, of interminable fallacies and important impossibilities, of simple joys and the beauty of perseverance, of forensic accountability and the value of imagination, and, perhaps with most urgency, we delve into ourselves and this Country.