Commonwealth Abyss was made in 2010. It has been sited here at Wamboin so that you come upon it close up within an intimate space.
It has been sited to welcome visors to Wamboin, a greeting sculpture.
The Commonwealth Abyss 2010
Most often you can’t anticipate when a sculpture is visible, or invites attention.
The Commonwealth Abyss 2010
The camera interprets the sculpture randomly as a visitor leaving lights the trees as it goes past and introduces a fourth colour, briefly.
The Commonwealth Abyss 2010
The work is most alluring in its most recent placement on the other side of the dam where it can be vewed only from a distance. It is sited two metres above the edge of the dam so it appears suspended. You don’t have to deal with its materiality or its particular three dimensional qualities. The viewer has less of an opportunity to interpret a meaning. It’s subliminal now, only glimpsed.
The sculpture here serves to animate the landscape. Where we may have previously looked across to the other side of the dam, now we look into the distance and have a longing to get to it, to see what it holds, that we want.