waterfall

Waterfall intersects physical and virtual realms to underscore tensions between digital and analogue systems—by reimagining a natural landscape through the lens of technology, data, and physical intervention. This suspended water cell sits overhead in the top corner of the gallery space. A single channel video filmed along the Brisbane River plays as mirrors reflect this image back onto itself—building a new uncanny landscape where water flows towards and away from itself.

Waterfall is closely tied to Ross Manning’s Matter and Matrix series, that references Albert Szent-Györgyi's quote "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium". Both artworks dislocate waterscape footage into its coloured forms to collage its natural qualities into new illogical landscapes. While the Matter and Matrix series recreates the glitches and pixelated textures of virtual environments like Google Earth—Waterfall simulates a single-cell of this larger patchworked 2D landscape. The fluid dynamics of water are both reflected and distorted in this new micro surreal landscape that is driven by its own illogical yet systematic methodology that simultaneously exists between physical and digital realms.