marcellvs L. at artspace

I had a moment or two at Artspace today and was again intrigued by this piece. I am surprised again by my capacity to get mesmerized by a changing pattern - even when the change is so little and slow. I began to think of the juxtaposition of the boat moving leisurely on the ebb & tide of the river and the connotations of holiday and journey contrasted with the architectural structure of the building , a symbol of stability and safety, authority ... and how it would read differently if the movement was in the building and not the boat...   Shaun Tan - the Australian  writer illustrator that created the picture  book the "Arrival" said something about how pictures have a different rhythm to writing. Writing is linear and rapid while pictures are as slow as you want to make them - timeless, and you move around them in a circular or serendipitous way, rather than from left to right (interview with Shaun Tan for Children's book week on Radio National on Saturday 16th August). 

Looking at "spree" I moved around the picture at a leisurely pace, noticing the line up of the struts on the boat with the windows of the building,  thinking of all the meanings stimulated by this video picture.