'For much of Melbourne's COVID lockdowns, I thought about the past. With a suspended present, there seemed only an imagined future and a distant past. Like many artists, I went back to past works, looking for the patterns...
News and Weather was made while living in Tokyo during 2005/6 and each spread features an image fro mJapan paired with an article I was reading online that day from my hometown newspaper, alongside a record of the weather where the photograph was made. The project reminded me how you can be intensely immersed in another place while still thinking about home. Both these contradictory thoughts can exist together.' – Matthew Sleeth
17 x 23 cm, hardcover, Third Floor Press (Melbourne).