Laing’s large-scale photographic panoramas absorb the body of the viewer and invite a potent re-reading of landscape traditions. bulletproofglass #3 is a staged performance that centres on what Laing describes as “our fraught sense of belonging”. A bride somersaults, falling through the air after being shot. Black birds encircle the falling figure and there is no sign of the horizon to quell our unease or provide a sense of scale of the tragedy before us. The motif of the bride continues Laing’s fascination with romantic and nostalgic imagery. Here the bride as a symbol of purity and promise is defiled; once again virgin territory is desecrated. Laing is not the first to tackle this imagery, Arthur Boyd’s flying brides and half-caste bride series as narratives of displacement are invoked here.