This work draws on the artist's experience of time spent on Maungawhau (Mount Eden) during the 2019 Covid-19 lockdowns. Constructed as an immersive installation, the work incorporates abstracted spatial elements observed within the mountain's natural environment as documented through video footage and photography. With its video footage operating on an endless loop, the installation functions as a spatiotemporal bubble — documenting the subtle shifts in sunlight and plant life upon the maunga, and drawing upon the memory of the escape its experience provided during a period of global and temporal uncertainty.

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As digital technology became an increasingly prevalent, and at times intrusive, part of life during lockdown, the work reflects on the collapse of spatial and psychological boundaries between personal, private, and public environments often felt during this period. Stencils constructed from abstracted video stills extend the two-dimensional qualities of the video beyond the screen, bolstered by the extension of its walls via fabric planes, while the video footage draws the organic environment into the architectural environment — exploring how information travels across different mediums and re-anchoring the digital media in the physical.
 

The installation is intended to be moved through, allowing the viewer’s body to become an active plane within the composition. In creating an environment that is simultaneously grounded in and subversive of its architecture and media, the work invites viewers to spend time within it — exploring the layered spatial experience of the installation, and their own physical presence within both it and that of wider natural environments.