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Sky at Wamboin
This blog is called sydneyschoolofsculpture@blogspot. In the blog I talk about and show my world, much of it concerning sculpture and ideas around sculpture.
As of this week, this land at Wamboin too, has a title, or name.
Sky at Wamboin
That name is ‘Sculpture in The Sky’. Sculpture has been shown for the last twenty years or so at place specific sculpture events. Those places have been by the sea, at the vines, on the edge, in the paddock. They have taken their name from where the sculpture is shown. This exhibition of sculpture has a longer duration than those shows and SITS (Sculpture in The Sky) exhibits just my work.
Sculpture, by virtue of being normally grounded would appear to have little scope accommodated in the sky and yet, here we are at Wamboin on a plateau above Canberra. The sculptures are grounded in the sky and are at home there.
Just as our bodies sense the loss of pressure on the head and shoulders by being in this location in the sky, so too do the sculptures rejoice, to become more truly themselves, unshackled by proximity to the ground, to other objects and to the compressed time that ‘elsewheres’ inhabit. Time, here in the sky is more expanded.
Sometimes we become over connected to the ground as if that was our inescapable destiny. The sky shifts and can lack substance.
The real estate industry has begun to commodify the sky by selling air space to property investors.
Generally though, the sky does not lend itself to subdivision. Vegetables cannot grow there, cartographers are drawn to land masses more than sky masses.
An easy transition to the new normal will be aided by visiting Sculpture in The Sky.
Sky at Wamboin