Map Ref. 14. Between the bullrushes of the Marsh Pond in the Summer Garden, and within a stand of Casuarina cunninghamiana trees. This sculpture is operational between 12 noon and 2.00 p.m. every day of the year. Both of these photographs were taken with a digital camera for this project.
This work challenges all traditional notions of the form and purpose of a sculpture because a fog, by its very nature, is not solid, stable or hard. Water is pumped through hundreds of nozzles to create a fine, wet, mist of water vapour. Walking through the eddying mist is not only a physical experience but also a quietly soothing and deeply emotional one.
The fog sculpture was originally installed in the Domain in Sydney, as part of the Sydney Biennale for 1976. Seeing its potential for another site, the Gallery bought the sculpture in 1977. The only other permanent fog sculpture is installed in the Imperial Gardens in Shinjuku which is a suburb of Tokyo, Japan.
© 1995 Jane M Hyden
