Eclipse

2150 mm x 1250mm x 1250mm

Electrical cables, nickel, steel, cement.

I am interested in organic visual complexity as a result of simple repetition. What I create through 1000s of hours of re-tangling cables is similar to the visual effects found in nature, including fractals.  For example, when you look at a large vista of the Australian bush, it is infinitely different yet at once all the same.

Eclipse is can be seen as a lens through which to imagine our digital and environmental futures. A place where the handmade has inherent value and time is a commodity.

The circle, as a shape, is felt to symbolise so many things across cultures: Planets, orbits, circle of life, a lens, karma and so on.  The cables represent so much too: Power, waste, excess, progress, digital transformation, wifi etc  and the tangle technique creates an intriguing form that is stuck, immovable, unsolvable and inflexible.

I'll stop there for the time being....

Help from Peter Morris from Stoneyard, Quirindi, to build the plinth and Axolotl to coat the ring in Nickel.