week 6

Tuesday 30th August 4.25pm Watergardens Shopping Centre

The packed car park of the shopping centre reveals a like minded community - an all driving, parking, shopping show. Cars are dutifully left in sequenced order, behaving properly while their owners busy themselves inside the buildings of commerce. The ominous sky looks on over head - it does not stop to park for very long, if at all..continually moving, bringing with it dark marbled white - grey cloud now, and thtreatens to pour down here or further a field.....still the sun shines on behind the moody ripples of puffy silver cloud...i want to reach out and touch it...

Tuesday 30th August 4.27pm Watergardens Shopping Centre

Tuesday 30th August 4.30pm Watergardens Shopping Centre

Tuesday 30th August 4.31pm Watergardens Shopping Centre

Sunday 4th September 2.30pm Scienceworks Spotswood

Man made 'illusion' - with lights and mirrors we can create the illusion of space and depth...something i find fascinating to look at. The colours are almost neon - and captivate me.

Wednesday 31st August 8.50am Footscray

My morning community; we share road, pollution, tail lights, electric cables lining across the sky and, today, a clear pale blue ceiling.

Thursday 1st September 12.01pm VU Footscray

The sun shines on in gold and white against the glorious blue of the sky, the buildings are helpless to escape the touch of its rays. The clump of building shadows in its glare, revealing the sharpness of its angles and its solid unrelenting form.

Thursday 1st September 12.03pm VU Footscray

Friday 2nd September 9.08am St Albans 

 

Light of the sun illuminates our world...pierces through the clouds...and lands on the ordinary grime of my suburban city life...car fumes, street pollution, electricity wires and cables and the fundamental rule of the traffic lights - a man made light but so important to the way of things in this place...The sun may be so very far away but it reaches us through gloom and despair - offers a tranquility despite having no feelings or opinion on any matter...

Friday 2nd September 9.20am DFO Car Park Essendon

The man made bitumen 'park'- early morning - empty of cars and people  - the  adorning lamps stand exact and to attention ready to assist the shoppers pathway soon as the sun bids farewell for the day. The park lies waiting - awaiting the throngs of would be shoppers - all agreeing to change this landscape from it's former status...the bitumen smoothering over the earth that previously lay free and able to breathe. Above, the sun shines on, warming up, lighting up and bringing up the new day....

Friday 2nd September 9.26am DFO Car Park Essendon

           

Friday 2nd September 9.36 am DFO Essendon

*SALE*
..sale of light - an attempt to contain the sparkle and beauty of dancing light - and elevate ourselves ..and walk on this spectacle.

Friday 2nd September 9.36 am DFO Essendon

Friday 2nd September 9.40 am DFO Essendon

Friday 1st September 1.30pm Footscray

Ahh..the clear cut preciseness of signage - but the sense of humour prevails - the human - ness of good nature has placed it's stamp of 'being here' (notice the sticker on the second 'O' in 'Footscray'...something to delight the travellers and remind us all of chaos and vunerabilty.

Friday 1st September 2.45pm Sunshine North

Friday 1st September 2.45pm Sunshine North

This cloud changes the landscape mood.

Friday 1st September 2.46pm Sunshine North

Cloud obscurity - where am I? 
It's like a giant puff ball - so easy to get lost in - so easy to look at and forget the troubles below on earth.

Friday 1st September 2.48pm Sunshine North

Sunday 3rd September 2.30pm Scienceworks Spotswood

Here I view the bizarre combination of 'human viewing the show of prehistoric dinosaur' - our obsession with creating something we really can not know exactly because it was before our time. The lighting is used in an attempt to make this spectacle come 'alive' - capturing a past, capturing the light to create a sense of real, to delight our senses.

Sunday 3rd September 2.45pm Scienceworks Spotswood

An eerie green glow helps transform the sense of place - and evokes a surreal-ness that is, the mechanical dinosaur.

 

Friday 2nd September City 10.04pm

I am drawn to the light - like a moth..I revel in the pretty blue of this electric neon strip...man illuminating the darkness - our human attempt at revealing a control, a power over our world.....