[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
epoxy fibreglass, wood, aluminum, solar powered motors/lights, transmitted narrative
127 x 198 x 66 cm
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES makes allegorical references to ways of the garden and its rhythms, adding a meandering fictional narrative component to its focus on plant cycle events. This narrative/discourse remembers Liza Dalby's East Wind Melts the Ice and its phenological cues occurring every five days, structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac. There are further references included from Peter Matthiessen's Snow Leopard, and in the paths travelled by Marco Polo.
The two-thirds scale gondola has been partly modelled after an original situated among the opulent architecture near the resort city of Gagri on Georgia's Black Sea. The gondola was chosen as a vehicle that would embody the way-points of a travelling, as between oasis caravanserai, and as means for over-looking. There is implied in this embodiment both the supremacy of the tamed environment, the distancing of this same wilderness, and the discovery of the belvederes presented. From the ground, the viewer may admit all of these associations, and further anticipate the unscheduled autonomous events precipitated by weather and sky conditions.
The gondola traverses between waypoints overlooking the MOP garden. It absorbs solar energy during the day and at night emits light, and text (wirelessly). Direct your WiFi capable device to 10.0.0.10 on the open WiFi network: FRENECIRCES
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES (detail) 2011
active WiFi and travel direction lights
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES (detail) 2011
perimeter lights
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
Ottoman Line Sledge
A phenological journey through west-east asia,
illuminated, while moving point-to-point, by Frenecirces
[COME SEE] THE FRENECIRCES 2011
WiFi transmitted narrative / WAN 10.0.0.10