Directions for Ziggurats to Scale • 2018

Directions for Ziggurats is a giant-scale site specific work of video-based digital poetry projected across a car highway bridge (William Jolly Bridge) in the middle of Brisbane City, Australia. Working with the archivists and curators at the Queensland State Archives I discovered a series of architectural drawings, notes, letters, doodles, lists, responses and handwritten comments about Brisbane City. All these papers and their histories represented arrows, the collisions of ideas and movement, of intention and concrete.

The history of a place, like the William Jolly Bridge, is built from interconnections, brief comments and letters, a thousand arrows pointed towards and away, eventually blundering into steel and poured concrete. When you cross the bridge, imagine your own trajectories, your points, histories, along a line, arrows to some haphazard and wonderful future.

Published & exhibited

Brisbane City and the Queensland Art Council, William Jolly Bridge.

Select impact

100,000AUD in direct and in-kind support from the Queensland State Archives.