a small robot car roams the floored canvas, its pen trac-ing the old transpor-tation ballad botany bay sang by the convicted in the penal colony at australia. each word in the song becomes a short move: steady steps, gentle turns, and special gestures when the lyrics men-tion farewell, cap-tains, convicts, wings, or botany bay. over time the robot’s path fills the rectangle with looping ribbons, ech-oing the journeys of prisoners who once left millbank for aus-tralia and the shifting tides of power around this site.

farewell to my old pals (2025)

melissa/yunzhi li