Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 Art Guest artist for Overland 239: Seth Searle Seth Searle Cover Interior Seth Searle Seth Searle is a Melbourne-based artist with a BFA from the Victorian College of Arts and a Diploma of Arts (Visual Art) from RMIT University. She has shown in exhibitions including fragments, Daine Singer Gallery (2020); A Droplet Of Dew, Tinning Street Gallery (2020); Friends and Family, Daine Singer (2019); It Will Always Be Like This, Boom Gallery (2019); Hideaway, No Vacancy Gallery (2017); Sento, Enough Space (2016); Ready Or Not, House of Bricks (2016); Safe Space, Egg Gallery (2015). More by Seth Searle Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 2 First published in Overland Issue 228 31 August 202212 September 2022 Art Just another haunting Barry Corr This landscape is not a manifestation of a triumphal struggle over droughts, floods, hardships and Blacks. Rather, it is a refraction of swirling patterns of memory, memorialisation; suppression, repression and revelation; constantly ravelling and unravelling, endlessly struggling to erase or incorporate the Other and soothe the settler pillow. 1 First published in Overland Issue 228 7 April 202231 May 2022 Art What would Joseph Beuys think of your ‘focus forest’? Tara Heffernan What the Forest app provides is the illusion that time spent on study, work, or everyday chores can also be creative and community-minded. Moreover, that the tasks of everyday life and work that are typically ephemeral, forgettable, and often of diminishing returns, can—when recorded in productivity trees in the forest of progress—leave a trace, recouping a sense of purpose and significance.