SERPENTINE PROJECT

This artwork is a huge drawing of landscape scale, that exists on the water surface of the Serpentine Lake and Long Water within Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in London. A multitude of circles continuously appear and disappear on the surface of the water in patterns choreographed by the activity of air, water, wind and light combining. According to the day, time of year, the suns position and weather conditions the drawing on the lake’s surface will alter radically, changing from being invisible to standing out clearly and then disappearing. Colossal in size, it can be either viewed in part from the sides of the lake or seen as a whole from the air and the surrounding buildings to the park.
The works intention is to serve as a connecting bridge between man and the world we live within, both physically and metaphorically. By existing in the same scale as the natural landscape and the city, it perceptually bypasses the individual and relates directly to mankind as a whole living within nature. Lateral to this the materials and the forms used in the artwork are timeless, leaving the individual intervention to a bare minimum. This appropriation of minimal individual input into the work, creates a specific and far reaching harmonic that resonates beyond the artworks own limitations.