ARTWORK DETAILS

Poppy Roberts
Star Gazer Installation
1 hanging sculpture and 5 digital prints

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores how both the spacial and temporal world are inextricably linked. I draw comparisons between humanity’s perception of ‘time’ and its evolution through millennia. From when time was measured in the movements of celestial bodies, the blow of a breeze or dappled rays of light, to the metronomic, synthetic beat of contemporary life. Otherworldly time exists in constellations, such as The Pleiades, shining through the dark and into the light. In the end, deep, intimate communions are delivered between the viewer, the primordial land, and the Cosmos – in time both measurable and immeasurable.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Wooden cube constructed with clocks embedded into each side. This is suspended from ceiling with 5 digital prints on wall that were taken on Stradbroke Island and at school using another constructed wooden cube ( with holes representing constellation of Pleiades in it) and glass orb.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Poppy Roberts