Flooding Vessels: Barkindji Country, Menindee Lakes.

Flooding Vessels are hand-built terracotta earthenware vessels examining the Menindee Lakes waterways, Barkindji Country NSW. By pressing commercial clay into dry claypans, dead fish and organic matter onsite that have been affected by the blue-green toxic algae water degradation to the Darling River system, this method assists Kristen in situating her body in connection to historical events politically, culturally, industrially, and environmentally. The pressed moulds on the vessels surface are unglazed highlighting the environmental impacts from droughts, floodings and thousands of surfaced dead fish that occurs from the toxic blooms.