Djilba, the season of yellow treasures
By Michaela Watts
Artist Bio
Michaela Watts is an emerging multidisciplinary artist soon to graduate with a Bachelor of Design, majoring in Fashion and minoring in Photography. 
 
 Michaela embraces a curiosity for tactile and hands-on experimentation. She blends narrative and medium focused work, allowing themes and materials to inform each other.
 
 Growing up across Malawi, New Zealand, and Western Australia, her upbringing has greatly shaped her continuous exploration of identity, culture and place. Michaela values intention and aims to infuse it in everything she creates.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
Yellagonga is a whole body, a living organism breathing being into visitors. Each time it offers something new of interest, but always sensory and always immersive. It is the experience of the sublime, the total encapsulation of the present moment. From this lens we can simplify ourselves and our problems, confronted by the vastness and sheer beauty found in this place. The sublime clarifies what is important, helping us to step back with perspective. Yellagonga teaches this and as it moves through the seasons this ability is unfaltered.
 Djilba, the Noongar season of conception is known as a transitional period towards warmer weather. By then Yellagonga, is home to eucalyptus, bottlebrush and Spring’s debut of wildflowers. It starts with yellow but Yellagonga has a whole palette if we look closely. This bubbling cauldron wafted aromatic clouds filling the senses with Yellagonga, an example of just how involved this practice was. 
 From season to season we witness a transformation of place. 
 We wonder what Kambarang will bring to us but we let the park decide.
 
 Yellagonga, September-October 2024
 
 
 (Work in progress)
 Salgado Gispert, Gloria
 Watts, Michaela