From the Muddy Banks is an ongoing project about the Waimakariri River, a waterway of cultural, economic, and geographical significance to Canterbury. It focuses on stretches of the riverbank outside the bounds of designated access points, places of no specific significance, to examine how people utilise, shape and value the river, how it’s appreciated as resource and taonga. My intention for this work is not to direct viewers to problems unique to the Waimakariri, but for it to be analogous with many different sites, forefronting contemporary ideas around the human relationship with nature and waterways.