A European-trained artist with a highly poetic and dreamlike visual language, GW Bot often blends literary references with a deeply sensitive approach to nature.

This artist’s book features a text in Cyrillic script by Russian poet K.D. Balmont, who visited Australia in 1912. He was horrified by the destruction of nature caused by white Australians in their pursuit of economic prosperity. He wrote this poem as a warning to the white man, urging him to remember what Australia was like before this devastation. By creating this book, G.W. Bot emphasizes that this warning still seems to have gone unheard.

The book also evokes, through engravings, the Australian landscape around Canberra, where GW Bot lives. This landscape is sparse and harsh, yet also incredibly fragile and delicate. For the artist, it serves as an allegory for how people live within and relate to this environment.