car trouble

So whilst daughter #2 had a swimming lesson in Kambah, I made a temporary installation (just off Jenke circuit, for those Canberra bound).

The theme is the relationship between inert nature and progress.

The tire is the perfect exemplar of the liberation made possible by tapping into the earth’s energy and resources. The tire represents a dualism within modernity it is both made from oil products, but is also part of /driven by (motivated) a motor car which also runs on oil products. It is round, it contains within its shape a moving dynamism, it flows, as does its composite parts, it also allows for the moving (backwards and forwards) of associated parts to which it is affixed. It is the modern precondition of a wheel, we cannot say a wheel rim contains the function of circle or round, it is the tire which completes and defines the movement made possible by transport.

The situation of the tires – that is removed from their normal set quadrilateral situation – is linear, the far tire not receding but both becoming and dissolving.

The tires have been positioned three times.

The first image contains four tires (the number for a standard car) lying down. The positioning in this state implies a lack of dynamism, the absence of a car indicates the nullification of purpose or in fact a negation of the possibility of movement. In this position indeed the tires represent nothing so much as a set of holes. Holes that reach beyond the tires and point us back into the ground/earth from which both we and the tire materials came.

The tires standing signify movement, the tire is caught in the process of movement, our gaze has stilled them for a brief period, but we know if we look away they will roll away as if involuntary, so instilled within their self/ image is the idea of movement. The tire in its standing position also represents the dynamic progress of humans, constantly evolving and shaping the environment.

The final image, of a singular tire, within through which we can see further tires shows us the possibility of love.

In case you are unsure of where still, it's between the two strips of trees across from the street name and building (pool).