Coal Country, Newcastle East
Coal Country predicts the effects of climate change on the Australian East coast landscape and from an aerial perspective, the sky above. The viewer flies over and listens to six locations from the peninsula at Newcastle East, the vineyards at Wollombi, the inlet at the Hawkesbury River, the bay at Pretty Beach, the beach at Avalon and finally King street in Newtown where the work was originally conceived of in early 2008.
The 6 land and seascapes are distorted (stretched or warped) and display an interpretation of their satellite image. Hovering above them web like black broken lines twist over/into each to imply a fracture in the earth’s structure and are representative of oil coagulating after falling from the engine of an aircraft. The cloudy skies (above each wing) alter in hue from an aqua blue haze to violet and lime. The discoloration presents a future pollution of our atmosphere(s).