The four bridge columns under Parkes Way transformed into ‘core samples’ of resonances that exist within the concrete city around us.
Artist Statement:
This work is inspired by the limestone core samples taken during a recent geotechnical survey at Molonglo’s Dairy Road Precinct. These samples taken between 38 – 60m below the ground are filled with evocative fossils revealing the site’s early beginnings as a coral reef.
It’s a beautiful concept to imagine the resonance of an ocean that once existed beneath our feet. Responding to this concept, the four bridge columns under Parkes Way have been transformed into ‘core samples’ of similar resonances that exist within the concrete city around us.
The ghost maps of ancient creeks commonly mistaken for storm-water drains, the underground mycelium network that supports life above the ground and the marks made by the moth-larvae hiding within the Scribbly Gum eucalypts of O’Connor Ridge.
Core samples of a coral reef discovered underneath Dairy Road. More information about these core samples can be found here.
Install shot.
Install shot.
Install shot of the column modeled off the Dairy Road core samples revealing the site’s early beginnings as a coral reef.
Install shot of the columns modeled of the resonance of mycelium and Canberra’s ancient waterways.
Install shot of the column modeled of a scribbly gum eucalyptus tree (eucalyptus haemastoma).
Detail of the scribbly gum column.
install day with Campbell Miller.
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