Collaborative sculpture with Tricky Walsh. permanent public art commission for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The
Distiller hovers. It is part machine, part mythical reconstruction – a
one-to-one scale model of an all-processing apparatus which hovers up in
the eaves of the building like an observant and benign creature,
gradually processing the contents of the museum, including, at times –
the audience itself.
Using
the form of a scale model it allows the audience to complete the
possibility of its form in their own imaginations. Inspired in part by
the working armatures and dioramas in the Natural History Museum in New
York, this work likewise is the structure of the imagined and asks the
viewers, upon their entry into the Museum to start suspending their
disbelief and embrace the wonder of possibility.
Using
standard museum classifications such as Geological, Botanical,
Biological and technological The Distiller mutates all of the incoming
information and displays the abstracted outcomes of its processing in
the glass vessels which sit partly between museum display, and
laboratory experiment.