The Golden Feral Trail

Archana Hande's showcase at the Centenanry Hall at the Government Museum during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. The Golden Feral Trail is Archana's journey that records local and oral histories to trace the relationship between South Asia and Western Australia. The story of trade and migration between the two regions from the early 1800s until the present can essentially be mapped from the Gold rush to Ghost towns of today. This trail has taken her to cemeteries, abandoned graves, and deserted mining pits, ghost towns, institutional archives and personal photo albums. The Feral Trail, as she calls it, as she sees it, remains beneath the red earth. This Western Australian horizon tells a story of a nomadic establishment of economy but also of a loss, an erasure.