ECU Churchlands Commemorative Art Project by Arif Satar and Audrey Fernandes-Satar

This installation commemorates the site of Edith Cowan University’s Churchlands Campus which was decommissioned in 2007 and is now a residential estate. Where once students came to learn; now families will gather to experience another type of community life within the amphitheatre. The artwork unfolds slowly in a series of moments, reflecting the pages of a book, complete with loops, hinges, tabs and incisions. Inscriptions draw forth an evocative, poetic narrative; the sculpture is covered in words both meaningful and conceptual, these are then tied together by the metaphorical book of love, book of knowledge, book of people and book of trees. Amidst the definition and dislocation, diction and contradiction, there’s a pause, a moment of quietness and time for reflection.