Kristy GORDON

catching fallen stars II

fibreglass, polyester resin, acrylic paint, foil, mirrors, LED lights, solar-powered batteries

catching fallen stars (detail)

catching fallen stars installed in NOX Night Sculpture Walk 2021, Randwick, Sydney

Let your gaze be drawn in …
Be still,
and let the night humble you.
For the sky is a pensive place,
its many stars hold thoughts, memories,
a presence through time.
Let these stars anchor you here
while your thoughts drift on the air.

My work remembers the blood moon of May 2021, which I experienced during a residency at Fowler’s Gap, NSW on traditional Wilyakali lands. The experience inspired a profound sense of awe and wonder at the night sky, and at time itself. We are but such tiny marks on its surface …

This work is the result of a slow, meditative making process in which the experience of nature is mediated with repetitive drawing modes to communicate a sense of stillness, calm and mindful attention. It offers viewers a moment of calm in the night, an opportunity to be introspective and to appreciate the beauty of the sky that we have shared for all of time.

Kristy works with time as a raw material. She practises slow making in screen-based drawings, carved sculptures and site-specific installations, utilising the velocity of contemporary digital and power tools to mediate sensory experiences of what she calls ‘more-than-human’ environments. Her practice contemplates how slowness translates from lived experience of landscape to modes of drawing, finding connections between repetitive mark making, flow, contemplation and resonance. Kristy is a current PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney. She works on both Gadigal and Darkinjung lands in Sydney and the NSW Central Coast.

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