Jack's Bay (the architecturalisation of memory)
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2006
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Jack's Bay (the architecturalisation of memory) is a key work of the author's exhibition Lightsite, which toured Western Australian galleries from February 2006 to November 2007. It is a five-minute-long exposure photographic image captured inside a purpose-built, room-sized pinhole camera which is demountable and does not have a floor. The work depicts octogenarian Jack Morris, who for forty years held the professional salmon fishing license in the hamlet of Bremer Bay, on the SE coast of Western Australia. The pinhole camera-room is sited within sand dunes new Jack's now demolished beachside camp. Three generations of Jack's descendents stand outside the room - from his daughter to his great grand children. The light from this exterior landscape is 'projected' inside the camera-room and illuminates the interior scene which includes that part of the sand dune upon which the floorless room is erected, along with Jack who is sitting inside. The image evokes the temporality of light. Here, light itself is portrayed as the primary medium through which we both perceive and describe landscape. In this way it is through the agency of light that we construct our connectivity to landscape. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/32202/2/Research_Statement_Jack%27s_bay_Ian_Weir.pdf http://eprints.qut.edu.au/32202/3/ScreenHunter_03_May._14_12.37.jpg http://ianweirarchitect.com/ Weir, Ian (2006) Jack's Bay (the architecturalisation of memory). [Visual Artwork] |
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Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering |
Palavras-Chave | #120107 Landscape Architecture #220301 Aesthetics #220303 Environmental Philosophy #Landscape #Photography #Habitation #Representation #Sustainability |
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Creative Work |