Education Wall

Basalt

Drawing around basalt

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran

The basalt stairs cleaned, swept and neat. The wall drawn in gauze.

With the gauze what has been washed onto and off the steps I would like to record its distortion. Copy the pattern and translate it into another fibre. Possibly in PVC tube, which would catch the light.

for more tongue twisters

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2 meters on Basalt

Well it's about 2 meters. The same 2 meters that went to Tasmania. This follows Adair's comment about the lines of gauze being like drawing and is an experiment for a larger work.

New Wall

Stairs

Stairs after many days of rain, 25th January, 2008

The horizontal spun gauze has begun to pull away from the edges. The warp and weft have crept together in some areas and pulled apart in others.

White

Guarno gauzing the rocks on Isle des Phoques north on Maria Island, Tasmania Cliffs on the eastern side of Maria Island
Limestone and dolerite area on the east of the Island: water and limestone action forming a drapery of stalactites

Triabunna Wall

This resting place is located at the front of the council building at Triabunna. A dry stone wall. I can imaging sheltering from a blasting wind in its curve.

White Wall, Tasmania

Top of the cliffs at White Wall, allocasuarinas make a soft spot to rest and they draw with their shadow 2 meters of gauze at White Wall with Mike at the other end and Haydn taking the shotWorking, firmly attached to the gound.

Natural Gauze

On Maria Island, Tasmania we found an inlet which was trimmed with white 'gauze'.

Stairs after rain

I'm really like the way the warp and weft of the gauze are distorting. The gauze is both settling into the steps and pulling away. The horizontal areas are bunching up in the low areas and pulling apart over the high spots. The vertical pulling away from the steps. I would like to remove the gauze before it falls apart too much. I plan to hang the gauze vertically when it comes off the steps. Have to experiment with ways of either setting the distorted gauze in place or holding the gauze in place with a stable netting sewn into the gauze, or excepting that it will change again when hung. Oh well, I can try all.

The stair walk

Basalt walls and steps

The basalt walls at Mount Tomah are constructed of mainly hexagonal or pentagonal blocks. At the present basalt is sourced from a quary at Peats Ridge. There is a continuing building program. A team of stone workers are at present working on walls around the new education building.There are many older walls, one of my favourites is the wall behind the waterfall.

Making the dark light, an idea for gauze.

The lower steps in the garden have been built out of trachyte. Another volcanic rock. It was collected from the old Homebush sale yards in Sydney, when they we demolished. The trachyte is in square blocks.