The spatial arrangement.

{Mapping out space on the Queen's Birthday long weekend.}

map |map|
noun
1 a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.: a street map.
• a two-dimensional representation of the positions of stars or other astronomical objects.
• a diagram or collection of postcard collages showing the spatial arrangement of works on a gallery wall: a map to make the installation process smooth.



An obsession with right angles revealed. I am Poirot neatening the paper spills on the mantel (The Mysterious Affair at Styles).

Quite my favourite part, the laying out of work made but not for longest time seen. From one small white box for transportation’s ease comes over 450 postcard collages. Within, all  are wrapped in column bundles of seven horizontals or five verticals. Together, they make one long grid, and I am looking forward to installing this work once more (but with variation and addition) come August as part of an exhibition, All breathing in heaven.

In a room where normally I do yoga, over recent long weekend I was able to lay out this work and make plans to add in 28 new postcard collages (which specifially tip their hat at Geelong) to the meld. The room alive with different Dogs, Cats, Cows, Eagles, and Camels, and the floor littered with paper order where normally there are purple mats. Having quiet play of such a space proved great for the head. Time to think as plans were drawn. (Time, as in below you'll see, to sit and post previews to instagram too.) And now our map is complete.

Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison, Stephen Wickham
All breathing in heaven
Saturday 17th of August – Sunday 13th of October, 2013
Geelong region artists program
Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street, Geelong




















{Everything in correct position.}

Particulars:
70 columns (57 horizontal (7 postcards high), 13 vertical (5 postcards high))
(of) 464 postcard collages
(with) 70 printed labels with each collage's title
12.27 metres in length
1.1 metres in height
928 nails (required to hang)

Hours to install:
Iimpossible to predict

+ Upon related note, within this temporary makeshift box, twelve of Louise's exquisitely drawn Southern Hemisphere birds reside. For the month of April, a Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons). For September, one Superb Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus superbus). And finally, in this visual peep, November's bird, in ring of a kelp, an Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittate).

+ To those of you heading to Vanguard, The Australian Ballet's triple bill, triple thrill, this evening, I wish you a wonderful experience. It is a true celebration of the physical form and how it can move, convulse, be powerful, be languid, be pulled like marionette or swim in defiance of gravity. It still tugs at my heart. I'd love to hear your thoughts.