In his paintings, do Campo traces the history of Sydney’s introduced animals across time from the 19th century to the present. He follows the movement of this expanding menagerie from the Royal Botanical Gardens in the Domain (founded 1816), to the Zoological Gardens Moore Park (1884), and then finally to Taronga Zoo, in Mosman (1916). In his work, Prickly Pear (my mirror companion), do Campo figures himself through his depiction of the prickly pear, a species whose introduction from Argentina prefigures the artist’s own arrival from Argentina in 1997. The Prickly Pear spread all across Australia, and was eventually eradicated by a moth species. In a time-consuming process, bugs can be scraped off the pads of the prickly pear to be dried and turned into natural red dyes. The matter-of-fact titles of the works leave our imagination free to wonder about the fantastical pairings of these animals and plants – the cacti and prickly pear – indexes of migration, and of our place in the story of colonisation.