Video projection with sound. Looped, 5 min. DVD, audio monitors, sterling board and tree bark. Dimensions variable.

Wonderings was curated by Irene Bradbury and featured works by Sean Dower, Judith Goddard, Peter Macdonald and Ged Quinn.

Text from the Press Release for Wonderings 2005:
'From the viewpoint of a video camera attached to a remote controlled car, we explore the undergrowth of a woodland floor. In a clearing in his local park, Sean Dower remotely surveys a woody hollow for evidence of previous visitations. At ground level, we encounter a myriad of signifiers, including canisters of lighter fluid, glue bags and wraps of silver foil - the flotsam and remnants of abuse.
In Lunar exploration terminology, a Remote Characterization System (RCS) addresses hazardous operational problems by using unmanned vehicles and remotely controlled instruments in site surveys. Dower directed his own 'RCS' whilst listening to a low-end electronic soundtrack, included in the final installation. The innocuous litter becomes a hazardous terrain of toxic-wastedness. The repeated, childlike process of encircling and returning to the contents of Drug Den invokes a feeling of natural inquisitiveness until, eventually, the survey is complete and we are left wondering ‘where next?’.

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