The Equatorial Arrangement: part one is an investigation into the material values, and processes of production evident in a pairing of two sites: the Axedale Clay Pit, in Central Victoria, and a commercial canola farm just outside of Ouyen, in Victoria’s Mallee region. This project, made and displayed in a recently harvested paddock, brought together material from various sites, to explore the formal qualities of the quarry and the farm, as similar, but inversed, sites of production: the clay pit a site of reduction and extraction and the farm a site of generation and propagation.

The project took place over one week, where I slowly gleaned the paddock, collecting debris from the harvest and creating an ever-growing pile. At the end of each day the pile was covered with a large blue tarp, and weighed down with lumps of clay. The work adopted visual language from the agricultural industry in the form of a storage bunker, to engage in ideas of material production.

The Equatorial Arrangement: part one was presented at Karingal Contracting, as part of Tarpspace, coordinated by Henry Jock Walker and Jessie Lumb.

Many thanks to: Melissa Morrish, Clare Keogh, Tess Healy, Alison Brookes, Henry Jock Walker, Jessie Lumb, Claypro.