By Lucy Wilson
Walking
to the Opening of The Unconformity
Project at LARQ (Landscape Art Research Queenstown) run by Raymond Arnold, I caught sight of Mount Mother Lyell in the late afternoon
light. Spectacular. The sun was illuminating the bare rocky surface, which
glowed through its weather washed patina. I soon learnt in the exhibition
speeches about ‘the Western Feeling’.
It
was in The Unconformity Project that
geology and art came together. Where the movement of human endeavour above and
below the surface of the earth encountered the natural and mysterious movement
of rocks below. Vivid connections were made by artists Tim Chatwin, Julian
Cooper, Ruth Johnstone and Jan Senbergs in a four part exhibition.
