Matter
2007

Matter 001 was developed for the Strangely Familiar exhibition at SASA gallery in Adelaide, 2007. The project combined photography with a responsive crystalline artefact that lurked pensively beneath a shelf in the gallery. The location of the work, whilst chosen for its lack of illumination, concealed the artefact from passing view. Instead it became something that the curious sought out by accident or small children discovered while exploring the space on opening night. The form of the artefact resembles an opaque crystal is based on the strangely familiar concept, often represented in movies, of mysterious ‘meteor showers’ that deliver unpredictable forces to earth. It responds to human presence through variable light pulsation which increases its sense of parallel alien-ness and familiarity. It seems to throb as one approaches, perhaps it is radioactive?



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