Mixed media (LED light source, optical fibre, fishing rods)
Many installations are an eclectic mix of facts, feelings and ideas that I collect magpie-fashion from my travels. Telegraph Rose is an example of this process. While visiting Darwin in the Northern Territory I learned from a local historian that the first international Morse Code message was sent by telegraph, just below the lawns of the Parliament building in the city centre. And, during a helicopter flight I learnt that the good folk of the Territory are enthusiastic about fishing. Telegraph Rose is an installation of 700 multi-coloured vertically orientated fishing rods laid out in the form of a Sturt’s Desert Rose, the Territory’s floral emblem.
