The solo exhibition Clandestine Origins comprised of two experimental series: Flush, Clandestine Origins and Disposable Beauty, shown at the Project Gallery in 2024, QCA South Bank, Brisbane. See Installation Views for more images.

Crase used liquid and solid refuse produced by the community to interrogate our relationships with the discarded. Experimental photographic images were presented that belie their origin, to explore how and why their perceived value shifts when the origins of the images are revealed. Does the viewer recoil in disgust, from an image they had considered beautiful at first? How do we ascribe value to an art-object? What draws us in, and intrigues us?

In Disposable Beauty preconceptions about plastic refuse are probed and presented in a new light - literally. Rubbish, lit by cross-polarized light produces an almost incandescent effect of birefringence. Transparent, discarded plastic waste is transformed into a kaleidoscope of iridescent rainbows and opal-fire glow.

Disposable Beauty is a series of six pigment prints, 600 x 850 mm. Edition size is five plus one AP.