Tide Sketch explores the natural environment and its representation, questioning human-centric visualization in an age of climate change by allowing natural processes to alter the recording process.
Responding to the relationship between two overlapping but decoupled systems, the natural environmental processes of the sea and the legislative boundaries found in maps and charts, this project employs a process-based practice that centers on traversing a set route within a landscape. Upon being physically touched by a branch, rock, wave or gust of wind, equipment is placed, and the natural environment is invited to take part in generating work.
Through the design and implementation of electro-photomechanical devices, wind, temperature and other natural elements impart their presence in the capture. Through this process of creating, an index of co-creative work is produced. The outcome is made in fellowship, a political reinstatement, a collaboration.
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Project acknowledges support for Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation Visual Research Fund (2020) and Victoria University of Wellington, University Research Fund (2021).
