Always a pleasure to be involved in this Artweek Auckland event. LOOK means working with people running the businesses as well as the space, and whatever else is in there too
– a good experience! I was thrilled to be invited to show in the window of Eighthirty Cafe having bought my coffees there when I was working at the Auckland Old Folks Association in 2015 – and enjoyed the message on it.
Grafting the 3 branches onto Dataspeed cable I found lurking at Surplustronics in Queen St turned them into wired vines (it was an oddity, the guys had no idea where it had come from and just charged me $1 a metre but it was the perfect thickness). A bit of lighting and they have a presence at night that extends beyond the window in a lovely unexpected way.
“Look back” is a hint to the past – to the former ridgetop path through the bush, and to the vanished view over the road from 553 K Rd to the huge tree beside the Church of Epiphany (now Torpedo 7) – and to my little knitted tree for LOOK 2016 at the other end of the strip.
