Waterflow

Waterflow
The idea of a jet-boat which ejects water for propulsion was invented by Sir William Hamilton in New Zealand in 1954. Many of the commercial boats including ferries in Auckland use this technology now.

Being a sailor from a young age, I grew up looking at waves and riding them. A wave is something that is tangible for a split second, but always changing and disappearing. Kind of like putting a hand out of the car perhaps.

Here I took a video of waves at the back of the Fullers ferry. A computer program then processed the video. Each frame in the video is manipulated in that every pixel is shown randomly from any 10 frames before or after this frame. This still shows a single frame after the pixel manipulation process.
In ‘real’ time there is a constant game of failure between your eyes and brain to see the wave at that instant. Here the computer program gets in on the game, shifting cinematic time and compiling the instant from multiple points.

Exhibition
RM103 2 July - 20 July 2008