In The Shadows is an environmental artwork, which creates an atmospheric zone through which one passes via three bridges connecting the Southern Boulevard terminus to the Tennis Centre. The work is made of a Twenty-one vertical transparent wands echoing scientific measuring instruments standing at various heights within Boundary Creek. The wands carry measurements and formulae for chemical elements and compounds and environmental conditions. These features are based on the capture of scientific data used in water quality analysis, which regularly takes place in this remediated creek. At varying intervals, water blurps, aerates randomly-whilst sequenced along the 100 metres length of the art work, atmospheric vaporous fog moves, rises and dissipates transforming and cooling the creek environment.

The edges of the creek are lined with bull rushes and the banks form a Casuarina forest either side framing the work while creating a soft organic green, ribbon like space between the very highly constructed tennis centre and boulevard. The work aims to reveal the transforming chemistry of water remediation by creating a poetic alchemical zone as a metaphor for the actual transformation of Homebush Bay from its degraded contaminated industrial past into Sydney Olympic Park, a green and living site for the future.

To download audio and video files on the development of the “In the Shadows” artwork visit the Urban Art Audio Video Gallery .