Weatherboard Patterns
Weatherboard Patterns is a site-specific permanent photographic installation for Inkerman and Nelson. The contemporary Australian sculptural work combines photography with architecture and provides the community a chance to engage with Balaclava’s place in time and history. This work explores how Collide translates imagery into public art.
The sculpture places iconic imagery of weatherboard architecture into the contemporary architecture of the Inkerman and Nelson developments. The work takes imagery of the weatherboard housing found in Balaclava and translates them into half tone images on perforated alloy panels.
Formally, the work merges materials: translating imagery of wooden weatherboard heritage architecture onto contemporary architectural materials and in doing so creates an illusion of the past merging with the present. The site-specific installation aims to celebrate where, who and how people are living in and around Balaclava.