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Stream of Time
A City Farm Community Arts Project
Title: Stream of Time
Artist/s: A City Farm Community Arts Project - Justin Ednie- Brown (Concept and Management; Origins; Community Spirit), Arran Yarran (Indigenous pre-history), Ema Sutcliffe (Settlement to Conquest), Tom de Munk-Kerkmeer (Industry to Ruin), and Ushan Boyd (Global Culture and Metamorphosis).
Year: 2002
Category: Integrated Artwork/Sculpture
Site: Claisebrook Station
Location Details: Sculptural element on central platform, addition elements inlaid on northern and southern platforms.
Description:
The stream extends from the two outer platforms into the central platform and continues into a vertical stream sculpture and mosaic fire mandala. Stainless steel surrounds, concrete slabs filled with mosaic and playground rubber surfaces were used for this pavement installation.
Artist/s Statement:
Claisebrook is the name of the original stream that drained the Perth city wetlands into the Swan River. Today, Claisebrook Station is a stream of human transportation, streaming in and out of the city area by train and vehicles on the adjacent freeway. In terms of the movement of life, Claisebrook has remained a stream in function, though its form has significantly changed from a natural water course sustaining the ecology of native bush and aboriginal culture, to a mechanised stream sustaining the development of modern civilisation and the culture of the Australian people. Beneath and between the past and the present is the process of history that has transformed the external form of flow.
- The unchanging external form of the life flow in the progression of history.
- To recognise the ever-changing external form of the life flow in the progression of history.
- The recognition of the cultural needs of our present. For Australian culture to integrate the events of history in order to work together for a better future.