The work was inviting the audience to experience something invisible from a place which is accessible to a very small amount of people - the sound of the wind over the south pole - in a place dedicated to the commodity of contemporary art such as an Art Fair.
The drawings were accompanied by sound of the wind recorded at the South Pole. They are a collection of representations of analytical data from different weather stations based in Antarctica. These stations show via their websites daily air currents moving over the continent. The data taken in the week of the exhibition were reproduced in drawings and mixed with drawings depicting natural air phenomena which are specific to Antarctica.
The juxtaposition of the drawings looks at two modes of representation: one which is analytical and scientific and the second based on a more ‘Romantic’ description of a landscape.
Exhibition:
Glasgow Art Fair 2006, commissioned by Market Gallery, Glasgow.
Air drop: at a 1000ft the air is warmer
Drawings / sound (sound recorded in Antarctica by Douglas Quin)
Glasgow 2006
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