Artists

Monica Buscarino hails from Italy, with Sicily etched into her identity. Raised in a home of her mother’s paintings, art was always present, but drawing never felt natural.

One day, struggling with a sketch, her father emptied a box of her photographs. “This is how you draw,” he said. Everything clicked.

Photography became her way of seeing, of holding onto what disappears. A pursuit of light, time and the stories that live in between. Writing followed, clacking away on an old typewriter, turning fleeting moments into something permanent. Her work moves through intimacy, memory and the quiet poetry of the everyday.

In Residence at Bundanon

During my Bundanon residency, I will begin developing a new photographic book project titled The Good Goodbyes. The work combines photographic sequences with written text. Poetic, diaristic and fragmentary, to explore departure in its many forms: romantic endings, faded friendships, geographic displacement and quiet emotional exits.

I will use the residency as a creative laboratory to establish the project’s conceptual framework through writing, visual storyboarding and narrative mapping. Working exclusively with film, I plan to photograph and to explore how fabric and textile-based image printing might extend the work toward a future exhibition.