Laundromat

2021 – Present

I have been washing my clothes at laundromats around Australia for the last few years. Whilst washing and drying a single mixed load, I share the space with other customers. While we wait, we often chat. After a forty minute cycle is completed, we walk away with our laundry and perhaps a story or two.

Most of the patrons are part of a class that statistically have the highest levels of empathy and lowest monetary incomes in society. They are also the most invisible and misrepresented group in Australia. As a result the progressive social ethics that exist here go unrecognised. Occupied by people living acutely in the moment, the laundromat is a place where the assumptions that regulate broader society have nowhere to stick.

This project is a work in progress.