'site'

Instead of trying to create a scene within an exhibition environment I have decided to choose a site which reflects the ideas I want to express.

This staircase is just at the top of my street, they are over-grown and abandoned, two flights running in a heart shape to nothing but a cabbage tree and a view through a fence to the catholic primary school inside. The property is owned by the Catholic Diaosese, but the derelict stone stairs lie just outside of the schools boundary, surrounded by unkempt bush and weeds.

The idea of installing a piece at the top of these stairs started after walking up and down them with a friend of mine.
They are narrow and littered with glass, rubbish and twigs, their grandoise design make you anticipate something similar at the top. Although there was no Victorian manor, but an amazing view of the city, you can see down over the CBD and out across the habour, and to the south out to sea, when you go their at night the town is light up with an assortment of coloured lights, when you look closer, lights are changing, traffic is moving, people are walking, opening doors, pulling curtains.. having lives completely separate from my own, and there is no way I can reach them and tell them how I feel.