Noblesse Oblige. With privilege comes obligation. The Orwellian propensity to morph history to dupe our progeny is what is seen in many historical artworks, manuals and records. The sample book: ​​A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook to the southern hemisphere​, will be an artefact that will inspire me to research the history of the catalogue, travelogue and scrapbook and how such collections articulate a wholistic version of the components and therefore creates a voice of authenticity which may or may not be accurate or favourable or objective. I propose to create an imaginarium in

a trajectory to a future time in a fantastic landscape, when ‘aliens’ will travel our planet and take selections of our materials to place in a virtual scrapbook, whereby humanity’s reputation is in the hands of the Earth-novice and non-parochial, and left open for the interpretation of the universe for millennia to come. A curated definition of we humans from a species other than ours, making us derivatives of ourselves, without agency, through the simplification of the ‘sample’, beautiful though it may be. The research and resulting artwork would make comment about the decolonisation of our country through opening artistic doors to an extrapolation of fantastic interpretation through a dystopian view. Highlighting that we reside in a frissoned, liminal space societally, where we strew our own eggshells before us and gingerly step on them in the hope that we might learn to find enlightenment and a long overdue willingness to genuinely shift, through self-flagellation; because sometimes, one knows not what else to do.