Crystallising Universe

2016

For the installation Crystallising Universe (an iteration of the Channels project), experiences in and around the space were recorded for a week before the installation was open to the public. These experiences feed back into the work, predominantly through a spoken text titled Motion of a Particle World, 2016. The movement of winter light; rain coming in through the leaky windows of the building (the floor had to be mopped twice daily); the foreclosed department store Forlongs poetically positioned across the street and slightly concealed by the thick branch of a large tree so that it almost read forlorn; the disorder of the gallery's storeroom-come-office; all became entangled in the experience of the work.

A key interest for the Channels project is the industrial ceramics waste at Brickbat Bay and Limeburners Bay, in Hobsonville Point, Auckland. The project consists of a series of artworks that draw on the ecological, poetic, and historical contexts of these spaces. Other sites and spaces of research have been inculcated into the Channels archive as it develops horizontally and vertically.