Contemplating Blue

Contemplating Blue 2021

A 15 minute meditation.

Best viewed with headphones, on full screen mode in a quiet place.

Created for: MAPBM Blue Too at WAYOUT Kandos NSW 2021, curated by Beata Geyer.

Exhibited at: Activist Neuroaesthetics Festival in Berlin 2021; Telepaslasticity, TeleplastiCity and Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art, at Sawtooth ARI TAS 2022; Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art, at WAYOUT Kandos NSW 2022; and Cosmotechnic Telepathics in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism at M16 Arts Space, ACT, 2023; curated by Jacqueline Drinkall

Daily Meditation Fragments

This meditation is made up of fragments of daily meditation journal, when undergoing mindfulness teacher training, meditating for 20 minutes each day for 8 weeks. This took place in County Cork Ireland. The subtleties of shift in experience each day was noticeable.

This was recorded, with video footage for the National Sculpture Factory 24/7 online exhibition, 2020

Mindfulness by the Sea

This meditation was created while sitting on the seafront at Seaford in Victoria. It is a simple mindfulness meditation that shifts from the body, to various sensations and sights of the place I was sitting in.

Also known as “Contemplating the Sea” 2019. This was created for the “Mapping” exhibition at Braemar Gallery Springwood, Blue Mountains Australia curated by Anthony Bond OAM for MAPBM, 2019

Channelling Woodford

This sound work was recorded at Woodford Academy, in the Blue Mountains Australia while sitting in the grounds with eyes closed and allowing words and feelings come to me. Excavating my own memories and allowing free association to lead the voice, the experience of doing this was unexpected. What emerged was a strong visceral spatial experience of the site, where my consciousness was spatially exploring the whole site, moving under the ground and through various rooms. This was accompanied by physical sensations such as hot, cold, wet, pressure, release, angle of trajectory; and emotional feelings such as emptiness, sadness, curiosity, wonderment, certainty, and even anger where I was having ‘arguments’ with myself. This experience was influenced by fragments of stories from the site, and different fictions that emerged from nowhere. Overall it was a visceral, potent, unexpected, fast changing, semi meditational, trance like journey. 

Also known as “Contemplating the Void”, 2017
Originally created for “Explorer’s Narratives of Site” exhibition curated by Beata Geyer and Mahalya Middlemist for MAPBM
at Woodford Academy, Woodford, 2017
Also exhibited in “With Every Breath" exhibition curated by Rilka Oakley at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 2019