Guttanaut

Alluding to Oscar Wilde’s familiar quote ‘We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars’, this video installation transports the viewer to exotic otherworlds inhabited by microscopic creatures found inhabiting moss in the dank environs of household gutters. Icosahedron and octahedron shapes representing the elemental qualities of water and air appear as constructs for satellites or modes of exploration across this alternative cosmos. These geometric symbols appear both in the video and as suspended wooden sculptures.