A couple of years ago, I went to one of Nataliya Daniel’s exhibitions. On display was a striking, painted work of the creek at sunset where I grew up, on Yuin Country on the south coast of New South Wales. I remember the black silhouette of draping casuarina trees with a golden slither of creek shining behind them.
Standing in the exact spot from which Nat painted this, I recently had the pleasure of talking to the artist and neuroscientist about her work, growing up in Ukraine and the intersection of art and science. After a brief catch-up on the shore, we decide to take the old pale row boat upstream to see what materials