The office sits overlooking the Birrarung River at Queensbridge in Narrm/Melbourne, the city’s oldest bridge, where a bluestone ridge once separated fresh water from salt. In flashes, dynamite is used to alter the shape of the river in increments of the city’s self-formation. Water’s sculptural meander is drawn and redrawn in its translation to public planar record. Safety glass, a common material in contemporary office architecture, has shattered and is reassembled as a series of lenses; weapons; shields; screens; arthropods; decorations — some changes of shape.
Installed for ‘Living Patterns’ curated by Ellie Buttrose, Queensland Art Gallery, 2023 / Courtesy: The artist / © Lauren Burrow / Photograph: J Ruckli, C Callistemon, QAGOMA