In Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris the protagonist Kelvin returns to his father’s house, as if in a dream. A dog runs to greet him, and he enters the house, only to find it is raining inside – a fact to which his father seems oblivious. Stepping

outside, father and son embrace on the shore of a frozen lake, and as the camera pans back, we discover we are not on earth, as thought, but on an island in the middle of an ocean on the distant planet Solaris. Fact or fiction? inhabiting a planet where such events occur every nanosecond is both a bewildering and wondrous proposition, and thankfully we have Kate Shaw to reveal to us this very bewilderment and wonder that inhabits our very essence and existence. That

the magic of these split-second spectacles have come to her attention allows us all to imagine – if only for a moment – what it is to stand on the shore of that frozen lake, where science fiction has become science fact.

Simon Gregg Curator Gippsland Art Gallery, catalogue essay.