Matthew Sleeth is participating in Sampling the City
Artist statement on I Don't See God Up Here (2010):
“I have always thought of good architecture as authoring people through space: that architects design buildings encoded with a set of instructions to guide us through them, usually without knowing we are being led. Taking this idea to its logical conclusion a two year old should be able to navigate through these spaces, and like all space explorers, they should be wearing a spacesuit.
Apparently Yuri Gagarin’s first words in space were ‘I don’t see God up here’. Even if this is myth, it’s a great way to think about space and spaces.”
Soundtrack: Wally Gunn
Viola: Biddy Connor
Commissioned by Lyons Architects, 2010
Lyon Collection, Melbourne
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