The Castlemaine State Festival continues this week. Last Saturday, video installation Essays on Earth was unveiled at The Goods Shed.
The multichannel video installation, which slowly unravels around the internal walls of The Goods Shed like a Japanese scroll, is built around Paul Kane’s sonorous reading of his epic poem on the themes of earth, water, fire and air.
The unfolding images use macro photography of paintings by John Wolseley filled with pond life, birds, carbon traces and geological rubbings.
This is the perfect match for the experimental microscopy of Brodie Ellis, whose work investigates the ethics of how our limited natural resources are being used.
You can catch Essays on Earth until Friday between 12-4pm and this weekend, April 8 and 9, between 10am and 4pm. Entry is free.
For more on this and all the other festival festivities visit castlemainefestival.com.au.