BONSAI LANDSCAPE, 2003
Installation for the Australian exhibition, Outside Inside: fragments in place, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Mediums: folded, printed cardboard; video; sound.
Bonsai Landscape, 2003 The installation is composed of folded cardboard structures, like point of sale advertisements. The images are a forest on a hill outside Salt Lake City that resembles a bonsai tree, and a photograph of a fire hydrant ‘speaking’ to a rock. The point of sale structures are arranged so that from one view point all the images face the viewer, then walking around them to the opposite side the images are grouped at different angles so that from one view point they are all blank. On a staircase next to the point of sale landscape is a TV set with footage of the forest from before sunrise till after sunset, the footage taken intermittently through the day as a series of live footage, showing changes in light, weather, clouds, birds flying over, etc. The sound is Salt Lake City airport’s live air traffic control broadcast.
A forest shaped like a bonsai tree on a hill viewed from Brigham Young University is the image on the point of sale objects.
Bonsai Landscape, 2003. A fire hydrant in conversation with a rock, in Salt Lake City’s shopping centre is the other image on the folded cardboard point of sale structures.