EYE WONDER - ART AND ABOUT SIDNEY
EYE WONDER
Eye Wonder is a project that makes people gather, stop and wonder.
We have chosen a simple instrument to invite people into a space that encourage thinking, dreaming, curiosity, observation, imagination and that play with the scenes of Sydney.An instrument that furthermore creates an intimate sphere in the overwhelming rush of the city, a sphere for meeting a fellow human of this world. With this project we want to challenge and provoke the perception of, what the city consist of. And we hope the city will play along.
We often find ourselves rushing through the city, eyes sternly focused on the ground plane, eager to get somewhere in a hurry as we push our way through the crowds. Magical moments disappear in this stress, the body reduced to a machine that transports us from one place to the next.What if you were to catch a glimpse of a mystical, unusual object as you pass though Hyde Park? You may be busy, but you are drawn towards this beautiful and powerful sculpture placed in the middle of the path. The machine and mind reconnect. For a moment you are present. You get curious – you need to stop.
As you get really close and allow yourself under the awning, the city announces itself in fragmented pieces of reality. Your imagination is triggered. You might see something you have never noticed before, a detail, a tower or a stranger.
Very close to you, another person wonder what the city could become.
Open Competition 2018
Eye Wonder is a project that makes people gather, stop and wonder.
We have chosen a simple instrument to invite people into a space that encourage thinking, dreaming, curiosity, observation, imagination and that play with the scenes of Sydney.An instrument that furthermore creates an intimate sphere in the overwhelming rush of the city, a sphere for meeting a fellow human of this world. With this project we want to challenge and provoke the perception of, what the city consist of. And we hope the city will play along.
We often find ourselves rushing through the city, eyes sternly focused on the ground plane, eager to get somewhere in a hurry as we push our way through the crowds. Magical moments disappear in this stress, the body reduced to a machine that transports us from one place to the next.What if you were to catch a glimpse of a mystical, unusual object as you pass though Hyde Park? You may be busy, but you are drawn towards this beautiful and powerful sculpture placed in the middle of the path. The machine and mind reconnect. For a moment you are present. You get curious – you need to stop.
As you get really close and allow yourself under the awning, the city announces itself in fragmented pieces of reality. Your imagination is triggered. You might see something you have never noticed before, a detail, a tower or a stranger.
Very close to you, another person wonder what the city could become.
Open Competition 2018