The Milking Process is a minimal and poetic installation that captures a sense of stillness through objects and their suggested meanings. Delicately suspended in the air, test tubes—carefully drilled and filled with white fertiliser—are intertwined with threads pulled from fertiliser bags. Their form subtly evokes the image of a cow’s udder, reinforcing the work’s title. Perhaps the test tubes could also evoke the process of artificial insemination used on the farm, where viles of semen are used to impregnate the cow so that she is constantly providing milk for human consumption.

The installation invites contemplation on the unseen moments between production and consumption. What takes place in the space between—a cow being milked and a bottle appearing on a supermarket shelf? How do we acknowledge the labor and processes embedded in this transformation?

In the corner of the gallery, a collection of milk bottle tops, each filled with fresh cow’s milk, sits quietly—its pure white presence a reminder of nature’s raw material in its simplest form.