Daniel Eaton
Passages
2008
1.5m x 8m x 1m
Stainless steel, Cor10 steel, Aluminium

Passages is situated at the entrance to the Bunbury Regional Prison pre-release Administration Building in Bunbury Western Australia. The commissioning body was the Department of Housing and Works.

The Bunbury Regional Prison required a sculptural work that was culturally and ethnically sensitive, since much of my work centres around cultural and spiritual themes I aimed to design an art piece that represented cultural subjects without actually referencing any particular culture itself. The work itself is made up of layers of Cor 10 steel, anodised aluminium and cast aluminium. The layers are arranged in a landscape format with a foreground, horizon and sky. They were cut to shape using photographs of local landscapes as reference. The one pictured is one of three walls and was a shot taken of the Stirling ranges from near Kojanup. The boat/vessel shaped objects and their imprints in the wall are a representation of journey and reflection, I also intended them to have both a historic and contemporary cultural significance within their form. I designed them with the idea of dug-out canoes and hand carved coolamon type bowls in mind but also intended them to have a very streamlined and contemporary shape.