VIEW FROM THE SIXTY-THIRD FLOOR: SCULPTURE BY THE SEA (BONDI)

Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 2005, mixed media installation (floor covering, astro turf, washed grass roots, living grass), cliffs near Bondi Beach. Installation for Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney.

“The carpet works are both on the ground and simultaneously floating. They describe a contemporary subjective condition. One that is never and always at home, in process, in transit, but absent from Australia but here. Here and there. Inside and outside. Both.” Excerpt from Elizabeth Day, The Black, 2012.

Texts about this body of work:
Duncan Fairfax, The Texture of Materiality, 2003.
Patrick Crogan, Lost in Space: Elizabeth Day’s View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 1998.

Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 2005, mixed media installation (floor covering, astro turf, washed grass roots, living grass), cliffs near Bondi Beach. Installation for Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney.
Elizabeth Day, View from the Sixty-Third Floor, 2005, detail of mixed media installation (floor covering, astro turf, washed grass roots, living grass).