Jo Lane’s Listening Stones Installation (Across the Waters)
LISTENING STONES
Jo Lane’s sculpture is a metaphor for a community who hear, who hear the land and sea of this area. Each ‘stone’ is made of gypsum rock and cast from the ear of a community member who stepped up, took hours and hours of time out of their lives, to advocate for the coastal and marine environment of Westernport.
They are ears of those that heard/hear our local environment and fought and long and detailed effort to save it, which they did, from the AGL liquid gas proposition for Western Port, and continue to advocate for this wonderful area. While this is not unique to the Mornington Peninsula, our community is the only one that is ours ... our ears to our place.
Listening Stones is part of ‘Across the Waters’, an Eco Arts Project which celebrates Westernport Bay/Warn Marin as a place of connection between people, land, waterways, sky and the wider Living World. The project is inviting people around the Bay to take part in activities that bring art, music, conservation and culture together. The artists wish to thank the Mornington Peninsula Shire and Save Westernport for bringing it to Flinders Fringe.
Jo Lane’s sculpture is a metaphor for a community who hear, who hear the land and sea of this area. Each ‘stone’ is made of gypsum rock and cast from the ear of a community member who stepped up, took hours and hours of time out of their lives, to advocate for the coastal and marine environment of Westernport.
They are ears of those that heard/hear our local environment and fought and long and detailed effort to save it, which they did, from the AGL liquid gas proposition for Western Port, and continue to advocate for this wonderful area. While this is not unique to the Mornington Peninsula, our community is the only one that is ours ... our ears to our place.
Listening Stones is part of ‘Across the Waters’, an Eco Arts Project which celebrates Westernport Bay/Warn Marin as a place of connection between people, land, waterways, sky and the wider Living World. The project is inviting people around the Bay to take part in activities that bring art, music, conservation and culture together. The artists wish to thank the Mornington Peninsula Shire and Save Westernport for bringing it to Flinders Fringe.
