The weather has been beautiful for you.
Weather is a silent component of our experience of landscape. It can modulate our awareness of the features of a space, our comfortability and relationship with a space. It can influence how long we linger, how we read a place. How we then re-constitute that place in our memory.
This project is intended as a gentle transformation of the experience and awareness of landscape.
As if the sun were always shining.
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Installation in the Berlin Tiergarten, as part of the Mapping Everything collaborative project between Olafur Eliasson’s Institut fur Raumexperimente (UDK, Berlin), and Gunther Vogt’s Institut fur Landschaftsarchitektur (ETH, Zurich).
Acrylglas, timber.
July 2011.
OCEANOGRAPH III: The thinking ocean has its peaks and troughs.
Experiments in ocean drawing.
Video of the Oceanograph III in operation in the waters off Coogee Bay in Sydney, NSW, March 2011.
Title taken from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
Exhibited at:
As Brave as You, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, May 2011
Rundgang, UDK Berlin, July 2011.
OCEANOGRAPH III
THERE’S A MESSAGE IN IT SOMEWHERE.
Ocean-drawing machine operated at Coogee Beach, Sydney Australia.
Included in the group exhibition As Brave as You at Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, May 2011.
I AM THE AMBASSADOR OF SPACE.
It is in the golden stain of time that we are to look for the real light.
(John Ruskin).
One minute apneas: an exercise in time dilation.
OCEAN TOPOGRAPHIES
AN ASSISTED VIEW.
Filmed through binoculars, en route to Rostock, Germany.
THE MIRRORS WOULD DO WELL TO REFLECT MORE.
A periscope was constructed from storm-water pipe and mirrors.
The periscope leads the viewer’s eye to a subtitled video recording, hidden from external view.
This work is premised on the mathematical concept of an ‘encoded universe’, and explores the ways in which we perceive and create meaning from the signs and symbols that surround us.
The title is drawn from the Jean Cocteau film, Orphee, in which the protagonist picks up strange, repeated and undetermined radio broadcasts, which are in fact syntactic, coded messages.
See related video work, THIS IS NOT SEMAPHORE.
Created October/November 2009.
STILL LIFE WITH CHAIR.
Latex chair, suspended.
2009.
THIS IS NOT SEMAPHORE.
The video accompanying the periscopic piece, THE MIRRORS WOULD DO WELL TO REFLECT MORE.
Shot on location in Alexandria. 2009.
SPILL.
Polyrethane foam, pigment, and constructed timber ladder that can never be climbed.
August 2009.
LIFE WAS BETTER.
Plaster dunce cap, sequined mannequin. 2009.
