Boxes are ubiquitous containers, protecting the goods we buy, then disposed of with little thought to be recycled into yet another round of packaging. They are also useful material for the resourceful gleaner; temporary shelter for a night on the streets, a sign to document a hard-luck story, requesting a few coins for a meal or a bed: signs that nobody reads properly.

The first work in this series ‘Just passing through’, comes from the ideas of Darko Radovic (Head of Urban Planning at Melbourne University) who talks about urbanity and the responsibility we have to maintain the urban (and social) fabric for those who follow. He reminds us that we only inhabit a place on a temporary basis: caretakers, not owners. But the statement is open to many interpretations: the laconic lament of the swaggie, the shallow gaze of the global backpacker, the dismissive arrogance of the corporate executive.