Stealing Fire
The Kulin people tell of a story of how fire was brought to humankind. Waang, the ancestral deity, and protector of the waterways is responsible for stealing the jealously guarded secret of fire and making it available for all to use. Waang takes the form of a crow, one of the most clever and intelligent birds of the animal kingdom.
STEALING FIRE honors this legend by, once again, stealing fire from the light of the sun and gifting it, in the form of electricity, to the community of St. Kilda.
publication
Energy Overlays: Melbourne: Land Art Generator Initiative
"On the foreshore of St Kilda with the skyline of Melbourne as a backdrop rises a new kind of power plant – one that merges renewable energy production with leisure, recreation, and education. Energy Overlays provides a roadmap to our sustainable future with essays about the energy transition and beautiful renderings and diagrams of more than fifty designs. The result is a city where the infrastructures that power our world are designed to be reflections of culture, where public parks provide clean electricity to the city grid, and where the art that makes our lives more vibrant and interesting is also part of the solution to climate change."
Ferry, Robert (., Taline Laylin, and Elizabeth Monoian. Energy Overlays: Melbourne: Land Art Generator Initiative. Hirmer, Munich, Germany, 2018.
