Cutting of the Y

I was away at the time of the cutting of the Y. Jan took these shots for me. One just before the cutting, the other after the cutting.

Education Wall

Basalt

Returning to Tomah

After time away I visit the large gauze

given over

the authorship

to the rain

the wind

it's fragility exposed

it's strength

Falling apart

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

http://www.repeatafterus.com/author.php?f=&l=Tongue%20Twister

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

Grass Y

Grass Y

Coconut fibre with netting

The bark of the Betula utilis curling off in the afternoon sunlight
The coconut fibre with netting, in huge rolls, looks as if it will break down just as the gauze has. Also it looks like it will act like the jute that was used in Tasmania to protect the fragile high country ground cover. 

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.

Boardwalk

The boardwalk at Cradle Mountain has chicken wire laid over it to help make the surface less slippery.The boardwalk made of timber, built to walk on above the wet and fragile land. This reduces the impact of the huge number of visitors that walk around the lake. New year 2008 it was unusually dry. Tasmania had not the rain that we enjoyed in New South Wales. Mount Tomah Botanic Garden as its basalt pavers and Italy too. Here they would (in a normal rain year) sink into the mud.

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

Large gauze work

Lisa and Marion helping with the installation