Enviro-Scope

The Enviro-scope is a site-specific optical sculpture / installation art work. The work takes the form of a large telescope like viewing portal, (4m long by 1.5m diameter at the viewing end and 0.2 m at the far end) which was constructed from local wild Poplar forest trees. The Poplar timber has been constructed into a series of diminishing geometrical (hexagons) structures held within a skeletal frame (designed references truss styled telescope designs).

The telescope / viewing portal is seated at eye height on the edge of a river with the viewing end located on the river bank and the far end of the portal suspended out over the water of the river. On the opposite side of the river are three large circular mirrors (2 x 1.2m diameter and 1 x 0.6m diameter). These three mirrors are suspended off a high cliff face and each mirror is directed to reflect a specific element within the environment – Sky, Water and landscape.

When a viewer approaches the work from the river bank the receding geometries direct their attention toward the mirrors and the environmental fragments that is reflecting, such as trees, water, sky, rocks and landscape formations become the subject of the observer’s gaze.

These installations are constructed from a combination of mirrors and locally sourced poplar forest timbers which have been assembled to create various viewing scopes. Each work presents the observer with reflected fragments of the environment at Vaughan Springs such as trees, water, sky, rocks and landscape formations.

At different times of the day and in different weather conditions the work is active and affected. Wind blowing through the caused the suspended scope to gently rise and fall, water ripples and mirrors move and shimmer. Visualisations of white clouds and blue sky over lap reflections of flowing water and landscape. At night, stars can be seen to move slowly across the large mirrors. The work is always in a state of flux which echoes the rhythms of space and light within landscape around it.

The aim of this work is to invoke an act of conscience observation and a visceral and reflective relationship between the self and the environment and its ecologies, form and histories.

环境观景装置（Enviro-scope）是一件场域特定的光学雕塑/装置艺术作品。该作品以大型望远镜式观景通道为载体，观景端长4米、直径1.5米，远端直径0.2米，整体由当地野生杨树林的木材打造而成。杨木被构建为一系列渐缩的六边形（hexagons）结构，封装于参考桁架（truss）式望远镜设计的骨架框架之中。
该望远镜式观景通道设置于与视线齐平的河岸位置，观景端坐落于河岸，远端则悬于河面之上。河对岸设有三面大型圆形镜面：2面直径1.2米，1面直径0.6米。这些镜面悬挂于高耸崖壁之上，每面均定向反射环境中的特定元素——天空、水体与地貌。
当观者从河岸走近作品时，渐缩的几何结构会引导视线投向镜面，此时树木、水体、天空、岩石与地貌等环境片段便会成为观者凝视的对象。
此类装置由镜面与当地采购的杨木结合打造，通过组装形成各类观景通道。每件作品都为观者呈现沃恩斯普林斯（Vaughan Springs）的环境反射片段，包括树木、水体、天空、岩石与地貌形态。
在一日的不同时段与不同天气条件下，作品始终处于活跃且动态的变化之中。穿拂过装置的微风会使悬置的观景通道轻柔起伏，水面泛起涟漪，镜面随之晃动闪烁。白云与蓝天的景象与流水、地貌的倒影相互交叠。到了夜晚，星辰会缓慢划过大型镜面。该作品始终处于流变状态，呼应着周遭景观内的空间与光影节律。
该作品的创作初衷，是唤起带有觉知的观察行为，并建立自我与环境及其生态、形态与历史之间的体感反思性关系。