Two years ago, these works began as experimental playful paintings of the feeling of a hot summer day. Motivated by particular South Australian experiences of wide suburban beaches, stone fruit, and the long wait for a cool change, they were made up of intense colours - vivid vermillion, sharp yellow-green and deep cobalt blue. Over time the work has evolved into a detailed contemplation of the fatal consequences of twenty-first century heatwaves. These works became increasingly inert, bleached, and brittle. Painted on the original bright coloured grounds, these depictions of human bones, reflect upon the morbid inevitability of increasing temperatures. Set up as still life, cropped and nestled in shroud-like fabric these bones act like ancient sculptural artefacts of a time that could be changed by facing our environmental responsibilities.