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description: The installation Root functioned
like a vacant lot. Viewers were free
to explore.
A footpath at the gallery entrance
led out double-doors to the parking bay at rear. The
environment
of growth and decomposition pit the rectilinear
geometry of man-made materials
against the fractal geometry of the
organic. A tension between order and disorder prevailed -
the appearance
of wilderness
was the result of careful construction.
materials: 16 cubic metres of soil,
wild plants, grass seed, footpath, sod, six mattresses,
twenty-two sinks,
one television, one industrial hoover, fourteen chairs, microwave,
coffee
maker, nescafe, a defunct bunk-bed with kid's graffiti, broken mirror,
branches,
thirty-five sprouting logs, insects, hoses, buckets, standing
water, four window frames,
eight tables, sewing machine, umbrella, door,
intact kitchenette set, kettles, one cubic metre
of scrap electrical
wiring, ten square metres of carpeting, trowel, handsaw, dresser, drawers,
hosiery, beercans, slight breeze, broom and dustpan, copper piping,
plastic cups, glasses,
utensils and sheeting, etc.
original dimensions: 12 m x 6 m (variable)
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