a rainbow all around
In the KUDO WINDOW At Pig Melon Gallery
Boorloo / Perth, AUS
13th January - 4th Feburary 2023
“To view a rainbow, your back must be to the sun as you look at an approximately 40 degree angle above the ground into a region of the atmosphere with suspended droplets of water or even a light mist.” (Physics Classroom [on-line] : Rainbow formation) To view a rainbow hovering above the ocean, the sun doesn’t have to be as high in the sky: it can be 10 degrees lower. You can see the rainbow when you dive through a wave, a wave that picks you up just enough so you fall down and move towards/into the middle of a rainbow, a rainbow that is all around you. I noticed the rainbow one day during a swim at City Beach and since then I have been trying to find means to hold onto this observation. This exhibition shares part of this process.
On the occasion of this exhibiton a series of public events were held
[A] Swim(s) Parallel to the Horizon Line
16th, 18th, 20th January, 7am
Meet between the groynes at City Beach. Please join Sophie to swim between the groynes at City Beach; together we will traverse the 850 ms of water swimming parallel to the horizon. We will meet under a beach umbrella and tea will be served following the swim.
Reading Aloud: ‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf
29th January, 11am - 8pm(ish)
Pig Melon 181 Lord Street, Boorloo (Perth).
Oscillating throughout the Pig Melon gallery spaces in the same way as currents move through oceans the seven narrative voices of Virginia Woolf ’s 1931 novel ‘The Waves’ are activated as the novel is collectively read aloud from start to finish.
fig. 6. not agressive, foam falls, deep enough. go under, not. body like this
mixed media on canvas, 36 x 77 cm,
fig. 5. need to come out of the waves and fall a bit
mixed media on canvas, 36 x 29 cm
fig. 2. a rainbow all around
mixed media on canvas, 73 x 54 cm,
fig. 1. a rainbow
mixed media on canvas 36 x 51 cm,
fig. 4. It’s a bit grey today so I would have hoped that there’d be some rainbows. Even with the big waves I was almost as tall as the water and able to roll into them.
mixed media on canvas, 72 x 53 cm
fig. 3. come out of the wave, a rainbow all around
mixed media on canvas, 73 x 51 cm,
variation of fig. 2. a rainbow all around
mixed media on canvas, 44 x 62 cm,
sand and tufts of rolling spinifex (Spinifex sericeus) borrowed from North Fremantle Beach