Flood | Light re-casts a degraded and nondescript site within the location of Victoria Quay, Perth’s principal harbour at the mouth of the Derbal Yerrigan. Flood | Light accepts and embellishes the site’s pre-existing condition of a collection of maritime artefacts (anchors and bollards) set within a swathe of bitumen under the immensity of Walylaup (Fremantle’s) sky. Made of two parts – a ground-work and a sky-work – these combine to make a space between with each responding to their site.
Engagement of the micro context to express the fragile nature of our macro condition
Light – Celestial navigation and the enduring presence of the cosmos (sun and moon)
Shadow –Filtered and ever shifting (pattern and memory)
Pattern – A mosaic overlay which filters and reflects (artifice, disc)
Flood – The rising seas from far beyond Wadjemup to Walyalup (7000 years ago)
Archipelago – The submerging of an industrial site of small-scale artefacts (islands)
Play – Wading (ankle deep)
Sponsors
ICS Australia, Forth Consulting, and the University of Notre Dame Australia
Builder
ICS Australia
photographs: Rob Frith (1-9) Julian Croudace (10) Duncan Wright (11-12)
