Moving Image follows a life-size photographic image of the wrapped Norber erratic as it is wheeled through Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu, Japan. Mounted on a large stretcher-like frame, the image is manoeuvred along paths, across bridges and through carefully composed views in the historic daimyo strolling garden.
Dunhill and O’Brien wear the pale green overalls used by the professional garden team, lending the journey a purposeful air. Visitors, gardeners and passers-by encounter a serious task in progress, although its purpose may remain perplexing.
The contrast between the windblown Yorkshire boulder and the garden’s highly cultivated landscape is heightened by the heat and humidity of typhoon season. What began as an image of a displaced rock becomes itself a travelling object, moving through another landscape by human effort.
The video was shown in the Folk Craft Museum within the garden, discreetly embedded among an existing display of cabinets and utensils. Happened upon in this way, Moving Image altered the atmosphere of the room, making the surrounding objects seem more expectant, perhaps awaiting their relocation.
Moving Image was shown as part of a project for the Setouchi Triennale alongside the work Erratic.
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