Wake (2005) A project presented for Dawn Light Contemporary Art Symposium, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia Water moves through the land after the rain like blood through our veins. muddied by cattle's muck, dammed, pumped, piped and drunk, then down the drain. we wait for the sea, it's heart, to cycle it back again. Materials: In the gallery; Cattle skin, watercolour, soundtrack "Wake", sound system. In the Japanese garden outside the gallery; underwater microphone and headphones (evesdropping on the koi/carp), bamboo fishing pole, wiring and amplifier. Beyond the garden in the park; waterproof speakers in 150 metres of underground drains, reverberating the sounds from the koi and the "Wake" soundtrack through the park and out to the bay. Source Materials: Field recordings and topographic maps tracing the movement of water from our home at Burnt Flat Creek, into the Wollondilly River, Lake Burragorang, the Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers and out to the Tasman Sea, New South Wales, Australia.

Sound excerpts

Creek excerpt

River excerpt

Koi eating in the Japanese garden

Koi eating in the drains

Sea excerpt

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