Water Works I

1987

Water Works I

Tiny water droplets run noiselessly down inwardly angled concentric rings of nylon line, to fall into a found steel hopper. Nature, controlled and meditative contrasts with the industrial fabric of form and space. The water’s slow and angled descent seems to defy gravity. Our attention is at once focused on the miniature detail of the water and the cavernous space that contains it.


location
John Heine Factory Leichhardt, Sydney College of the Arts Group Exhibition
material
Water, nylon fishing line, plastic irrigation nozzles, garden hose, found steel hopper
size
5 metres high