Lost Perspective, 2023, Airspace Projects, Marrickville, New South Wales
Walks were undertaken with the intention of walking until lost. At the conclusion of these walks, a photo of the sky was taken.
This process reflected a meditation on the sky’s form as a perpetual ceiling upon being, aiming to discern our perception of it when concerned with matters dependent on the terrestrial and relative horizontal plane, leading to the question, how might the sky look when lost?
In demonstrating a dialogue between consciousness and the external environment, the method of walking until lost draws upon the situationists’ dérive in the disruption of the linearity found in walking. Where commonly a walk results in the progressive approaching of a singular point in space, the derive promotes an aimlessness relative to an extended direction, applying constant directional decision making evenly dispersed throughout the duration of the walk. In applying the intention to get lost, the walks consider the reintroduction of an arrival point, in turn allowing for spatial decision making to be conducted in accordance to a greater direction and conclusory space.
Upon arriving at a point of being lost the borders to the walker’s immediate space became more pronounced, leading the search for location into the distant horizon. In this gaze outwards the sky’s form as a dome revealed itself to the walker. Meeting the horizon line in every direction the sky came to be understood as an accompanying yet objective presence that had spanned over all traversed space throughout the walk and that would continue over spaces unvisited.
When the search for location turned to the sky for direction, this search was met with silence. A silence emitting a reflection upon the now static walker in an arrived space.
