Having seen the promotional flyer for this I had my interest and expectations peeked. There are a lot of events happening alongside this installation which I can only describe as ritualistic, which seems an interesting idea. Basically there is a difficulty here for me. What the actual thing itself these events are based around. struck me as - not that impressive. Made from a huge number of dried out starfish, composed into a circular form. It hangs across the nave, but it does not dominate it, which it really should do, its size aught to overwhelm. There was a desire in me for this to be much much bigger in scale, and spherical, not a medallion shape. To be lit dramatically, to really wow me with awe and wonder.
Scale alone is not the fundamental problem. It simply feels a half baked concept, this stars above and stars below thing, the linking of the heavens with earth, the transcendent and the terrestrially grounded. Some how this feels far too light weight and the installation required much more imaginative effort to be brought to it. To dig a bit deeper than applying some basic imaginative associations to it. My overall impression was - of being underwhelmed, and when informed what the artistic premise of the installation was, still more underwhelmed. Remind me again, what is this supposed to say to me, because I really am not feeling it in my mythic gut?
CARROT REVIEW - 2/8
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