Golden Passage
Collingwood Yards Art Precinct, Centre for Projection Art, 2021
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Woven steel, created from images of the escalators at Parliament Train Station, 2021. Photo: Teagan Ramsay
From the vantage point of inner-city passageways, in 2020 I viewed the absence of commuters through woven masses of steel. Removed of moving bodies, the pathways now purposeless, I concentrate instead on crystalline light being washed across the surface.
There is no beginning and no end as the large-scale structures push forward, irrespective of the silent transit. A bright thread from Parliament Station meets the corridors of the Nicholas Building in luminosity; infinitely entwined in the experience of contemporary history.
Created for the opening of Collingwood Yards Art Precinct.
Special thanks to the Centre for Projection Art for presenting this project.
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Golden Passage, single channel projection stills, Collingwood Yards. Photo: Dr. D.
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Photo: Centre for Projection Art
March, 2021