don't overlook the weather (as your thoughts collect)
This site-specific public art commission by Sarah Almehairi responds to the invitation to create a contemplative space within narrow passages that are ordinarily a space visitors might just pass through on their way elsewhere, or occasionally stop for a moment to pose for an instagram photograph. Sarah intervenes by marking both the ground and the sky; looking down, we encounter objects, material traces that the artist has gathered, magpie-like, from the neighbourhood. Looking up, silvery text catches, moves and glimmers in the sunlight, reflecting its surroundings, lines of free verse that gently encourage us to take note of the weather. The work asks us to attend to the present moment and appreciate the shade, the sun, the shadows and the breeze as we continue to move towards our destination, made aware of our own ephemerality as we walk through a subtly altered environment.
