Brain ocean access no.8

Kim Henenberg

FAC No Place Like Home application

2026

Kim Henenberg, Brain Ocean Access no.8, ink and watercolour, 2026.

If the colour blue lends itself to a feeling of calm and peace. If the ocean puts our mind into a meditative state. Then surely proximity creates a similar effect. Does this proximity include a distillation of several streets, a creek, a train track, a freeway and a boom box to conjure the health benefits of a beach in Seaford?

So asks Landfish as he continues his journey, landlocked, housebound, driving his chronically ill vehicle through the depths of a mind underwater. Submerged in the static electric currents of thought eels provoked by various static sea critters swimming, swirling through eddies attracting garbage, useless, unhelpful concepts exposed by wriggly eye creatures seeking weakness and fragility. Landfish continues on almost blindly through these murky waters. Hopeful the proximity to his watery homeland is enough to hold onto.

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KIM HENENBERG is a contemporary painter

working with ink and watercolour. This piece is part

of his ongoing LANDFISH series, transforming

chronic illness with humour, confusion and

bewilderment. Henenberg is a member of the

SLOWPOKE: slow power collective. Henenberg is a

VCA alumni and has exhibited in various galleries

throughout Melbourne and Sydney. Solo exhibitions

include Seventh Gallery, Brunswick Temporary,

Bruce and Glimpse Art Space. Group shows include

Pelaton Artist-run, Lismore Regional Gallery and

Counihan Gallery.