Who Has Seen the Wind?

Having written about a lot of other builds currently showing at pirats it's time to post about my own installation 'Who Has Seen the Wind?'.
As always Newbab and Merlina have been very accommodating and patient, allowing me to take up much more space than I should with this build, and even demolishing one of their galleries so I could be moved a little not to crowd Nexuno. Thanks Newbab!

Although it's mid winter in the Northern Hemisphere here in Queensland, Australia it's the middle of hot, humid summer and the beginning of cyclone season when we watch the weather patterns and the skies. I started building 'Who Has Seen the Wind' on the first of our windy weather in November and couldn't get the lines of a childhood poem (by Christina Rossetti I think) out of my mind. The images around the build are 16 frame animations of the Australian native vegetation in a small park near my home.

I wanted to capture that edgy, unsettled feeling you get with warm winds and cloudy skies. The blurring of vision as the world moves and moves again.
Having been a sailor I thought of boats and synoptic charts and weather vanes..........and living in the tropics I remembered the long, boring hours of waiting when there's a cyclone watch.

I've done a machinma that you can see HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4frPARO3s


Hope you enjoy it.