A Familiar Place
Photography prints transferred to fabric, 43 x 55 cm, 2024
 
Artwork Statement
A softness to my home country, where people don’t talk about feelings and don’t cry in public. Where you eat bread three times a day, and coffee is always served black. A place where the most talked about topic is the weather. Where there’s a polarity between the people who left their town’s borders and those who did not. A place where you don’t greet people you know on the streets, but when you see strangers in the forest, you say hi as if you were old friends. A place where kids play outside, no matter rain or snow. Where the dark months leave you loving the light so very much. Because having one makes the other even precious.
 
The summer you so deeply wanted that flew by too fast—the grass between your toes, the sun on your skin, the cold water on your face as you pierce the water’s edge. The sound of seagulls, of children laughing. Seeing a clear blue sky in the night. The feeling of summer. The dreams of lighter days.
 
The small place that left a big space in my heart.
 
A familiar place. Home.
 
Artist Bio
Kamilla Musland is a Norwegian photographer and filmmaker currently based in Australia. She holds a BA in Photography and a Master’s in Film and Directing. Her commercial work includes fashion, portrait, and wedding photography, while her personal projects often explore memory, place, and identity through analogue methods and documentary storytelling. In this exhibition, she returns to image-transfer techniques on fabric—an experimental process she first encountered during her undergraduate studies. Her practice is shaped by a sensitivity to human connection and the subtle textures of lived experience across cultures and landscapes.