The artwork is constructed of laser-etched, anodised aluminium squares. It graphically represents the history of the area in a series of overlays. The curved lines of the creeks and waterways of the natural setting before European colonisation is the first level – the land of the Wurundjeri. Over this has been laid the grid lines of the original subdivision of Preston. The work represents how humans often impose on landscape in a series of regular patterns in attempts to make sense and order of it.
Artist: Caroline Beach, Adam Dettrick & Dale Stephens
Date made: 2000
Location: Bundoora Homestead Art Centre entrance ramp.