Horizontal Shift - Breathing Pattern
- Printed glass
- Eveline Kotai
Horizontal Shift - Breathing Pattern is a public artwork made specifically for the new Craigie Leisure Centre by prominent West Australian artist Eveline Kotai. A continuation of Kotai’s studio practice, specifically the Breathing Pattern series, this work features the artist’s fascination with materiality, pattern, process and the meditative act of art making.
When originally visiting this site, Kotai considered how the windows’ reflectivity captured a multitude of views of the surrounding bush and parked cars, with people coming and going, and capturing an interplay between surface and reflection. This work is made up of various coloured painted dashes that allow endless rhythmic permutations, echoing the activities taking place in the centre’s spaces, while hinting at familiar patterns in nature - such as light on water.
Kotai has chosen a consistent motif (or base rhythm) of evenly hand painted ‘brush strokes’, leaving clear glass where there are no brush strokes. The changes of sequence in the hues and tones allow multiple variations of imagery to emerge. Kotai intends the artwork to constantly change in relation to interior and exterior vantage points - in a way that not only evolves during the course of a day but also responds to the diversity of seasonal patterns.
Referencing Kotai’s artworks that relate to water, light and movement, Horizontal Shift - Breathing Pattern expands on an interest with nature, movement and energy by further connecting to the use of the leisure centre. The resulting artwork has a subtle but playful presence that seeks to provide visitors with a twofold experience: a glimpse from outside to inside that meld with their semi-obscured reflection; and for those inside looking out, a visual focus to the reflection of movement, breath and body.
- Collections: Public