John Power | Wander and Dwell

Wander and Dwell is a real-time generative artwork responding to the natural topographic environment radiating from Gosford and the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The traveller arrives in Gosford and begins a beguiling sensory journey, moving out into the landscape where rail and road networks wind busily through undulating coastline. Telco towers create their own lines of communication among sighing Norfolk pines. Deep time echoes through stratified colours of sandstone, conjuring apparitions, strange songs, and curious silhouettes which lead the traveller down forking paths. Through pencilling fern-light, the hinterland rainfall flows into estuarine mangrove stands and across the rippling surface of a lake on its way to the thrumming turquoise surf. Fascinated and buffeted by soaring cliffs, the traveller returns to the embrace of ancient casuarinas. Apprehension and beauty mingle in a liminal state of aporia - dissonance and paradox - forming a gateway. In time, we arrive at a transcendent state of tranquility.

Image: John Power Wander and Dwell. 2024. Digital still, courtesy of the artist

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