The video installation, Signalmasters, is part of an ongoing project that examines methods of visual and acoustic signalling used within maritime communication. The project was initially conceived as homage to the artist’s grandfather, who worked as a lighthouse keeper along the east coast of Australia and as a navy man in World War II. The two subjects in Signalmasters reframe navigational and navy distress codes as gestures thrown out to an empty ocean horizon. Instead of an exchange between vessels at sea, these performed signals indicate a desire, and sometimes inability, to communicate over geographical and cultural distance. Signalmasters explores this particular negotiation across land mass and ocean and the socio-political narratives embedded within this border crossing.