Commissioned by Carr Architecture and Interior Design to create a unique work to be installed in a light well in the entry of United Places Boutique Hotel, South Yarra
Location: United Places Boutique Hotel, 157 Domain Road, South Yarra
Water, acrylic, stainless steel, motors, motion sensor
Sculptural element approximately 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m, light cast on to floor approximately 2.5m x 2.0m
Visitors to United Places Boutique Hotel in South Yarra enter through a long corridor, at the end of which they can just see three circles of light cast onto the floor. As they approach the circles, they step under a conical light well. Looking up, they see three spheres suspended in the light-well. Each sphere contains water through which both artificial light and the sun cast refracted circles of light onto the floor.
Whilst visitors are looking up, a sensor is triggered which causes the water to vibrate, causing rippled patterns to appear in the refracted circles of light on the floor. The visitors literally stand within the work, caught between the unexpected sculptural elements above and the fleeting ripples below.