Maria Kozic’s specially commissioned series of photographic images made for Hazelhurst’s garden billboards, are suggestive of things that spark a connection to a whole story, however elliptical and mysterious they may be as individual images. Kozic documents the discarded, overlooked and taken-for-granted; things that have an intended meaning until transformed into images, where their significance takes you into a whole other world.

In Collide-O-Rama, Kozic constructs a story from images seen at different times and locations but that all have the same resonance of acts involving altercations of a violent and sexual nature. Viewers are encouraged to piece together a narrative from the four billboards so that, like a forensic examination at a crime scene, an emotionally charged story unfolds. Kozic confronts us with transient glimpses of life hidden away, seemingly unnoticed, awaiting ultimate extinction until discovered by the flash of her camera.