A collaboration with a neighbourhood group of creatives to discuss the universal issue of water in the local context of Houghton Bay, South Coast of Wellington. This lead to my individual response to the place where I live; a valley landscape with an underground piped stream layered over time by a series of landfills.
Transposing historical maps and topographical information into a timeline, the artwork’s continuous paper scroll encapsulates the urban changes impacting the valley waters during the period 1949-1970.
Acknowledging former land use and subsequent development, a composite reality of the streams current geography is shown metaphorically as a ‘flow chart of events’ in this concertina stairway construction in mixed media on paper installation.
An animated video records my process of making this large scale work in wet and dry drawing media, in a sense humanising the subject and embodying the stream as the female principle and figure featuring the main arterial ‘bloodline’ of the valley.
Flow Chart has been shared in an open studio setting and on digital platforms to serve forum discussions http://water-wheel.net/media-centre
shopfront installation project#30
http://urbandreambrokerage.org.nz/flow-chart