placemaking. doin' jobs, a series

doin’ jobs is a visual composition of rural labour as lived relation. Created by young people on a remote property, these images do not represent ‘chores’ or romanticise rural life. They enact place with movement, repetition, and co-composition- where body, tool, land, and weather shape one another with the rhythms of daily work. This is not labour as narrative or spectacle, but as situated practice. The images offer no moral; they offer presence: close, dusty, entangled. The series resists extractive interpretation and instead foregrounds placemaking as shared doing- where participation is material, affective, and ongoing. These young people are not objects of research but agents of relation, composing their worlds with effort and encounter. The work does not tidy itself into meaning. It stays with what is unfinished: the job half-done, the gesture mid-action, the ethics of research that asks how place gets made in the doing.

Page, T. (2019- published). doin’ jobs, a series. [Visual essay]