![]() ![]() “Things just fell apart,” Darren recalls. The combined stress and grief pushed Darren to drugs. The biggest of these was the death of his father, which was compounded by instability at work and tension in his relationship with the mother of his third child. Life took some hard turns for Darren a few years earlier. It’s special not only because he’s a proud Wiradjuri man, but because he found it, and because it was the catalyst for Darren turning his life around. One of the photographed items – a 20,000-year-old Aboriginal stone tool known as a Bondi point – holds special significance for Darren. “So when I did this installation, I gave back some of their treasure and beauty.” ![]() “In the same way that I was precious and useful at a time and then found myself transient on the street, I found these things that were made and were treasured once and seen as precious, but had been lost and found themselves in between, transient. It was all about that transient space,” Darren explains. The deliberately understated installation is deeply symbolic for Darren, who spent two and a half years homeless on the street a couple of years ago. It featured a series of photographs of ancient archaeological items, displayed in a small corridor. One of Darren’s favourite works was an installation he named Transient Treasures. He’s an award-winning Sydney artist, but probably not one you’ve heard of before. ![]()
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