CAMERON ROBBINS

“Wind Anolog”, 2020-2021

marine grade 316 stainless steel, aluminium, brass, composite fibre, marble, graphite

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia with funds donated by Ginny and Leslie Green, 2021

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”Wind Anolog is a kinetic sculpture which responds to weather conditions, transcribing wind patterns by drawing in graphite directly onto a white marble slab over extended periods of time.

The sculpture is a collaboration between the artist, the natural world, and the built environment. Its triple axis takes design cues from sea birds, weather instruments, and sculpture – the marine environment informing its unpredictable movements.

Pure carbon in its most stable form (graphite) draws upon metamorphic limestone (marble) made at the bottom of ancient seas: elements in the story of the carbon cycle. Both carbon and limestone are created by sunlight from the processes of organic life. Sunlight propagates the winds of the Earth as they move from cool to warm, dark to light, making the drawing happen.”

– Cameron Robbins

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