Installed in the new building created an environment to test and view the work in a new space, feedback physically giving back new ideas compared to the digital feedback. I was glad to be in a more serious and professional environment as it allowed for testing and failures.
Tracks
How we track and navigate through Aotearoa is being altered every day from how we treat land. Native forest residing along outskirts of developing rural suburbs will possibly be destroyed for further housing development. Although these spaces appear untouched, faint sounds of cars and trucks going by can be heard along with the occasional sounds of construction as new houses get built. Using salvaged building materials as a surface for painting on, my work references the human impact on the environment through increasing housing development.
A narrow of the Waikato River whose dimensions come from a previous work by Kennett Watkins of the same title. The Waikato River’s flora in this painting mainly shows Kahikatea or New Zealand white pine, as well as Māori people on the river. The past histories here are brought into a contemporary setting revealing the changing environments over time, and destruction of indigenous land.
I use modern track markers which are familiar to the trails and conservation of Aotearoa.
Light plays an important role in studies for visibility used with triangular track markers created by D.O.C. Black tunnels were developed to blend into their surroundings.
Works
Waikato Riverfront
600 mm x 1220 mm, house paint on weed matting. 2020
A narrow of the Waikato River
1364 mm x 598 mm, house paint on plastic covering and found wood. 2020
Boundaries between
840 mm x 590 mm, house paint on corflute. 2020
Tracking marker: 585
72 mm x 110 mm, acrylic sheet, house paint, found plywood and nails. 2020
Tracking marker: 590
72 mm x 110 mm, acrylic sheet, house paint, found plywood and nails. 2020
Tracking marker: 597
72 mm x 110 mm, acrylic sheet, house paint, found plywood and nails. 2020
Ink track tunnel
590 mm x 100 mm x 100 mm, corflute, 2020
Tracking marker: 590, 72 mm x 110 mm, acrylic sheet, house paint, found plywood and nails. 2020
Tracking marker: 597, 72 mm x 110 mm, acrylic sheet, house paint, found plywood and nails. 2020
Llenyd Price 