This installation is one of four outdoor pieces commissioned by the Oakville Galleries for the surrounding public Gairloch Gardens. The installation is situated in a neglected area that was a former service yard for the estate. The project is concerned with both the physical and the historical perceptions of this room-like space. The installation explores the tension between the edges and the body of the outdoor room using two types of viewing devices, transformed and writ large: the Renaissance perspective drawing frame (perspectival) and the Victorian gazing globe (anti-perspectival). The installation includes two very large gazing globes, a hedge of fencing and red climbing plants, a 41-foot long viewing table, and a pavilion with benches.
View from the Pavilion
The Pavilion, Table, and Frame
The Viewing Frame from the lake side
Looking down the Hedge
Looking back to the Large Globe
The Large Globe
The Small Globe and the Pavilion