BMBR137 and BMBR138

Fire bombers 137 and 138 returning to Canberra airport after a drop down South. Both 737-300 aircraft originally flew for Southwest Airlines in America. BMBR138 began life as a Coulson water bomber in March 2018. BMBR137 made the transition a little earlier, in the September of 2017.

Wind Drawings

Wind drawings are visual documents of wind behaviour. By creating a rig that responds to the physical influence of the wind, abstracted renderings of movement, time, environment and weather can be condensed into a single page. The properties of the rig means that the limitations and capabilities of the machine are also recorded within each individual print.

Depending on weather conditions, the drawing process can take minutes to weeks. The peak wind speeds, exposure duration and predominant wind direction over the period are recorded and paired with each individual mapping.

Intersections

The blue suits rhyme with the pay-parking sign, the green car pairs with the green decals in the shop window, orange leaves on the road match the interior lighting of the store, lines parallel lines, shapes parallel shapes. Direction marries direction. Sydney is beautiful and awful and anxious and energizing. All at once. Everywhere.