Visible silence is the narrative of deep time. It is the time taken for a mountain range to become a gibber plain. It is the processes of change embodied in rocks, in fossils, in the signifiers of our landscape that surround us and give us our touchstones for life and culture.

Visible silence is also a cultural narrative, palpable and inert … the silence of our violent colonial history, the silence of inequality, the silence surrounding the disintegration of the natural world.