Laelia and the seasons

8 – 30 August 2008, opens Thursday 7 August, 6 – 8pm

Artist Talk Thursday 28 August, 12.30 – 1.30pm

Laelia lives in a great abyss. From her position up high she can see all things. She watched the sun endlessly chase the moon, mighty trees grow from tiny seeds till they wither and die, and decades fade into millennia. After careful scrutiny of each process she finally understands and can therefore inter-operate the universal code. Everything appears to Laelia as a beautiful mesh of repeating patterns.

Her task is to now create a new calendar. A calendar that incorporates all that she has learnt. A calendar when read correctly, can tell you the past, the present and the future.

Laelia and the seasons is an installation based on the idea of nature and history being a layered series of patterns that is continuously repeating itself. By being conscious of these patterns one could essentially see the future by being aware of the past. The installation acts as a diagram of this vision.

After recently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Alasdair McLuckie spends his days romanticising the past, communicating with the dead and occasionally making pictures.