9bynine installation

the 9bynine was made in 2005 at a sculpture symposium in Matakana Auckland. It was conceived weeks earlier while sitting at my friend's ex-girlfriends mother's house, staring out the window and into the cold Austrian winter. They were speaking a language I didn't understand and I began to look at the clothesline in great detail. I had been to the museum of modern art in Munich days before and walked into a room with two wires dissecting it. I was fascinated by the effectiveness of such a simple thing and the concept of dissecting space with lines. Thus the nine by nine was born.

The 9bynine is a single log of 3000 year old swamp kauri split lengthwise into nine pieces. The logs are arranged into compositions and the whole thing is unified by a single length of black rope. The rope brings it altogether, dissecting the air between them and creates different spaces with the simple use of a line. The many different angles and compositions mean there are endless possibilities of experimentation. Stepping into it I was amazed by how the space changed as I moved around inside, and how amazing the dynamic relationships were between the two properties. I apologise for getting so deep.

These photos were taken at Omaha beach in Auckland. They are available as prints on canvas at a minimum size of A2 594mm by 420mm and are a limited edition of 10. The 9bynine now resides as part of the James Wallace collection