Bodine Saari

Through looking at photographs and architectural drawings of the past, I have reinterpreted the buildings of Old Acton through wire drawings. Playing with line and the hand drawn elements of these buildings I hope for the viewer to rediscover not just the architecture of the early 1900s but the meeting places and landmarks that were once iconic buildings for Canberrans. The fragile and transparent nature of wire drawing lends a sense of ephemerality to these buildings, emphasising that they are no longer here: these drawings are merely ghosts or skeletons of what once was. Using a small and tactile scale I encourage the viewer to come closer to inspect the finer details of the houses and buildings that made up the Acton area before much of it was submerged under Lake Burley Griffin.