The Big Let Down
2009
The Big Let Down
2009
Bronze, Aluminium, Paint
Dimensions Variable
solo exhibition, 2009, Michael Koro Gallery, Melbourne.
‘Stuck in traffic during peak hour on Riversdale Road, Hawthorn. It’s raining. A red balloon plays dodge-the-traffic up ahead. It’s funny how ideas grow…’
Jason Waterhouse - 2009
Jason Waterhouse’s exhibition Lighter than Air is a narrative collection of new sculpture and works on paper, all developed from this small, mundane moment.
Deceptively heavy children’s toys – Quad bikes and balloons cast in bronze–play with our perception of weight. The red balloon itself drifts between control and surrender, existing in a state of duality. Sometimes Waterhouse depicts it as a message deliverer, or as an escape device. Sometimes it is a force capable of carrying away the signifier of childhood dreams. Sometimes it is vulnerable, left to the mercy of dark stormy landscapes