OLR - Site-5 lake Ballard

Lake Ballard

Old Laverton Road = OLR Site (5)
WA: 27TH Sept

a very windy day cloudy day, the sky very moody and dramatic- thank god it was not sunny - we would have got burnt. Lake Ballard is a salt lake- google you will find many information on this lake. 

The beauty remains in vast span of endless flat red earth. and water reflection on the far off horizon. That day it rained so the lake was red or else it should be white - as it is a salt lake. you start walking towards the horizon, come across sculptures - life size human figures in rot iron, it was similar to the Bastar sculptures.

See sculptures by world renowned artist Antony Gormley at one of Western Australia's most unusual and remote cultural attractions - Inside Australia: Antony Gormley Sculptures. The artwork is a collection of 51 steel sculptures standing over ten square kilometres apart, on the white salt plain of Lake Ballard.   

http://www.kalgoorlietourism.com/Lake-Ballard

he world renowned British artist, Antony Gormley, has fused nature and art in a striking display of 51 stark black steel sculptures scattered across seven square kilometres of the vast, flat salt lake. As you approach, the sculptures appear ghostlike on the horizon, shimmering like mirages in the heat.

INSIDE AUSTRALIA, 2002 - 2003

I wanted to try to find the human equivalent for this geological place. I think human memory is part of place, and place a dimension of memory.
The 51 works are positioned about 750 metres apart; wherever you are positioned within the field of the work there are tiny, hair-like verticals hanging from the horizon. Viewed in the heat and sharp light, they constantly draw you to the edge of your perceptual field. 
http://www.antonygormley.com/sculpture/item-view/id/248#p0


Ok so you start walking towards the horizon and walk and walk and walk and meet these sculptures on your way but you focus on the reflection on the horizon. it becomes endless you can end up hours to get to the reflection but it seems the distance between me and the reflection in the horizon remains constant - so the reflection is also walking ahead of me in my space of speed.
and then you suddenly realise the reflection in the water is a mirage - in a cloudy afternoon a clear mirage

 

after i visited lake Ballard I went to Melbourne the east coast the Victoria - and the first day i went and saw Gigi Scaria's show - photographs and video in the Rann of Kutch - so similar - 

it is an idea of the nature and the geography coping each other.