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Components of "Migration" by Ian Burns & John Clark. (back view)

 

Installed on the Sculpture Walk at the Werribee Park Mansion.

 

Commended work in the 2006 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Awards.

 

Quoting from the interpretation -

"glass reinforced concrete, steel, pigments

 

9 units: 150 x 230 x 25 cm each

 

Migration is concerned with movement and the relationship between the individual components and the mass they represent in formation. Individually, each component is evocative of man made objects, however en masse, they contravene that logic and begin to appear as natural elements. Progressively from the individual leader of the migration (the foremost individual) to the straggler at the back, there is a definite degradation of shape and form, suggesting disintegration over space and time. A combination of factors ranging from the positioning of the objects, the overall mass and the nature and design of each component, presents the viewer with a three dimensional simulacrum of movement. The arrangement of the individual components falls short of symmetry to the extent that it invites a dialectic of presence and absence, certain members of the flock or pack appear to be missing and so emphasise the negative space and the space occupied by the viewer as passive spectator."

see - www.lempriere.perpetual.com.au/gallery_view.asp?galleryId...

 

Werribee.

Victoria.

Done