The sculpture installation Stranger in a Strange Land is characterised by its interaction with the built elements at Scenic World; a world where visitors comfortably view and transect a wild setting. Boardwalks, trains, a cable car, lookouts and storm shelters nurture and guide visitors during their temporary exile into this wilderness.
The wooden sculpture scaffolds and intercepts
a simple storm shelter and asks visitors to look away from the trees for a
moment and consider their place here. The storm shelter has become became
active.
What is true is that art is multi-layered,
and endless possible meanings can be conjured up from reading this work.
Perhaps the sculpture is a broken train track going round and round with the
ghosts of past miners, or an exoskeleton, or a comment on architecture, or a
childhood memory, or a didactic postmodern discourse that tries to elucidates
the paradoxical nature of art – either way it is always strange.
Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountains 2014
Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountains 2014
All images by Martin Kirkwood.
