The solo exhibition Clandestine Origins comprised of 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 the series, Flush and Clandestine Origins, experimental, photographic processes were deployed to create abstract monochromes of recycled sewerage water, collected from a local wastewater treatment plant. Dispensing with a camera completely, these interactions of light with recycled wastewater were captured in the darkroom, imprinting the liveliness of the water directly onto light-sensitive paper.

Flush is a series of seven pigment prints, 600 x 420 mm, and is an open edition. Clandestine Origins is a series of five pigment prints, 1190 x 950 mm, with an edition size of five plus one AP.