The artist uses the weight of her body to squeeze all of the air from a plastic inflatable that is shaped like a desert island. 

Desert Islands hold a problematic set of colonialist tropes in the West. Defined as an exotic and uninhabited, our imperialist cultural narrative presents the desert island as paradise; a peaceful place for European escapism, solitude, recuperation and rest. It is also a place of survival and resilience; a place where culture falls away and true ‘nature’ - in terms of both the environment and the human occupant - prevails. This playful video work quite literally grapples with the romanticised tropes that are coded into landscapes that we occupy and also imagine. Encompassing an equally loaded reference to the female body, the artist awkwardly straddles upon, deflates and contorts the plastic representation.