ENERGY RETICULATIONS
Energy Reticulations, an artist commission from the City of Canada Bay on display at the Digital Gallery at The Connection Rhodes where I researched and mapped the pathways of renewable electricity supply from macro to micro scale of regional NSW, to greater Sydney, to local Rhodes, with the aim of unveiling the reality of “City of Canada Bay goes 100% Renewable”. Drawing maps with copper wire and reverse tracking the shapes over backgrounds of contemporary architecture meeting restored, polluted industrial environments on Sydney’s western harbours towards Parramatta. An exchange with council on it’s history of environmental management systems and power, these days The Connection is powered by 99kw of Solar Panels. 100% Renewable in reality means, councils committing to 100% renewable energy companies who are making the transition happen in the next 20-30 years. 80% of NSW still currently runs on fossil fuel energy though wind and solar farms are being built as we speak across the regions, the percentages are slowly turning but there is a clean cut optimism in social marketing campaigns promoting utopian visions which I tried to simulate in the works. The first piece shows greater NSW network overlaid onto Canada Bay's degraded and regenerated waterway, the second shows a Western Sydney network overlaid onto a green corporate consciousness of Rhodes and the third shows the Rhodes local network over an immersive consciousness about sustainable energy. Approaching the utopian vision.
The Digital Gallery Rhodes, 8 May - 11 June 2023
