Celestial Crossing

210 George Street, Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia

cut and engraved stainless steel

commissioned by Poly Global Australia, curated and fabricated by UAP I Urban Art Projects (images taken by Document Photography)

Come twilight the heads of many tilted backwards, their spines lengthening, a metal circular device featuring inscriptions and patterns held high, in some of their palms. Eyes are fixed upon points of reference, luminous bodies of radiation, devotional objects, mythology, science, spirituality and ecology, suspended within a spectrum from orange to green. The movement of the people is resolute, a traversal of land and sea by migrant and pilgrim, towards, away from and beyond, the past and future simultaneously.

Leaving a low earth orbit to enter deep Space the continuing migration expands through agency and encounter, transformability, as emotional responses to landscape reach a pluriverse 140 million miles away. The glass eyes of some peer through half silvered mirrors, where celestial bodies brush the horizon, creating a fusion of angles and angels between the Sun, two distant stars and an unknown planet. The movement of people is resolute, the traversal of deep Space reverence to the human and object, as human bodies reach the celestial crossing.