© All photographs by Brett Boardman Photography.
CAIRN OF THE HORIZON
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2005
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2005
This site specific work builds upon conceptual themes of an earlier Sculpture by the Sea work “Vessel of the Horizon” in 2003. This work, however, extends the concept to engage more with the geometry of the site, as well as the site’s elements and materials, in addition to the horizon and its light.
The stone of the work is both emblematic of the cliffs of Tamarama, the sand of its beach, and is literally of the immediate locale as it was quarried in North Bondi.
The Cairn is planimetrically conceived as the notional geometric central point of Tamarama Bay. The focal geometry reinforced within the concave centre of the Cairn. Viewed in reverse, ie looking out to sea, the cavity frames a vertical view of sand sea and sky, whilst from a higher vantage point the horizon is framed.
