Graham Hay

Poetic space

Graham Hay

Ceramic earthenware paper clay, LED, 30 cm (H) x 24 cm (W) x 8 cm (D)

During weekly walks for a Sunday coffee on Beaufort Street, I am drawn to many original houses along 9th and 10th Avenue with decoratively patterned leaded glass windows (as opposed to the overly coloured stained glass in Mt Lawley and Subiaco). The patterns and use of glass textures in Inglewood are more subtle, with small, artistic differences house to house, window to window. Perhaps inspired by ‘The Poetics of Space’ by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, I imagined and attempted to create an internal space, a portrait of the houses from within. A hypothetical collective internal space into which is projected four creative interpretations of selected leadlight patterns. The result: leadlight inspired images cast in light, projected into the space within the sculpture, onto the actual gallery wall behind the work.