The Resistance of Memory (v3.0)
“Ancestor Clock”
Mixed reclaimed media,
Indigenous Flora
75 x 75 x 340cm
C.E.R.E.S Community Environment Park.
(Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies)
Melbourne Sustainable Schools Fair 2013.
East Brunswick, Bentleigh Secondary College, Epping Views Primary School and Croydon Hills Primary School.
C.E.R.E.S Environment Park / Sustainability Victoria / VINK.
Summer / Autumn 2013.
Commissioned by CERES Environment Park (Sustainable schools: Incursions) this living sculpture became the centre piece to three day-long sustainability fairs, and held over 300 tube stock specimens of Native Flora. The tube stock was ceremoniously distributed to participating schools as a symbol of their pledge of creating a sustainable school. The Tube-stock donated by The Victorian Indigenous Nursery Co-operative have since been plated in over 300 schools around Melbourne.
The Living assemblage sculpture, a patchwork of found antique and vintage timber and native plants, presents an overgrown and oversize Grandfather clock. “The Resistance of Memory” focuses on he concepts of Urban Re-vegetation through a conceptual, aesthetic, practical and historical lens.
Winter 2013—>
The Work was unofficially re-named the “Ancestor Clock” by CERES staff and re presented as a monument to a Prominent and long-standing CERES Member to commemorate their 25 Years of involvement in CERES and Sustainability Education in the Region. The Replanted “Ancestor Clock” now greets visitors in the CERES Reception, in East Brunswick Melbourne.