Urban Edge was timely, coming as it did whilst COVID was ravaging the world. Sited in beautiful Brunswick Heads at the start of the southern breakwall and just up from the high tide mark that separates the ocean from the land, this work hugged the dunes spanning 50 or 60m. Upheld as a tourist destination for many years, the town experienced an unprecedented explosion in tourism during COVID (like many parts of the east coast of Australia), as people fled the cities looking for a better lifestyle. It has never recovered. Hoping it wouldn’t become the tourist mecca that is Byron Bay, locals have been dismayed at the level of incoming wealth that has brought such massive and irrevocable change to their town. The flat steel plates in the familiar shape of a house, offer a sense of visual homeliness and comfort which turns out to be false, echoing the stark reality of homelessness and the lack of housing across the Byron Shire: not just for humans but also for wildlife. The birdboxes are merely facades and offer no safe respite for birds – it’s a false promise. Visitors were invited to move through and around the installation, as in a suburban neighbourhood but a glance through the opening of one of the fabricated, empty houses only resulted in taking the viewer back to the environment.