The last completed work from my retired small business, Meadow Lane, “Trailer Park Sweetheart” features Emerson Park and explores themes near and dear to my heart. Since I was four years old, I have spent nearly every summer of my life in a caravan/trailer park. To me, it is one of the only places on earth were time has truly stood still. Kids play from sun up to sun down, neighbours talk to each other, ask favours, borrow sugar - everybody knows everybody. In only a matter of hours you feel like you belong. It’s seems a hazy sun, which never fully sets, creates a divine and glowing shield around that shared community, tricycles on hot cement form shrines, blue swimming pools offer holy water. I learnt almost everything I know about what it means to be cool from my time in caravan parks, as well as what it’s like for home to be a place that feels safe and comforting. Because of this, small, crowded spaces, deteriorating before your eyes and filled to the brim with DVD’s, old bed sheets and mildewed toys, have always felt the most like home to me. One thing I really miss about shooting clothing collections is getting to work with so many different looks. Each change of clothing provided a deeper look into the character we were conveying, the story we were trying to tell. I hired a vintage caravan from an eclectic couple in Brooklyn, NSW and decorated it with vintage items pulled entirely from my own bedroom (the largest unofficial museum of vintage goods in North West Sydney).