Memory Lane
2016, Sheet metal, recycled plastic water bottles with lids, 22 x 100 x 2100 cm
Photography: Ian Hobbs
Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi
Artist Statement 2016
Like the ocean we are a body of water, and water, a basic building block of life, permeates our collective memory.
Memory Lane has been constructed from recycled empty plastic water bottles with blue lids. They have been assembled into the shape used to demarcate one of the lap lanes typically painted onto the bottom of a 25-metre public pool.
The plastic bottles, in their multitude, have painstakingly been collected from our recycling bins. However, many of their relatives have found their final resting place in the ocean. Assembled en masse, they provide a testament to their numbers, their history and their lifespan. A lap lane of memory.