Art changes when you look again.
From the archive garden of podcasts and stories of art, viewed again.
Janet Echelman: 1.26.
Suspended above George Street in Sydney, Janet Echelman’s 1.26 softened a hard-edged city street into something people could stop beneath, look up at and experience differently.
The work was inspired by data from the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami. The movement of the earthquake was powerful enough to shift the Earth’s mass and shorten the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds — giving the artwork its name.
When data becomes something you can feel.
What stayed with me was the way the work moved between science and experience.
Numbers describing an event on the other side of the world became something suspended over a city street — moving with the air, changing with the light and giving people a reason to stop and look upward.
Explore the original Janet Echelman: 1.26 story.
Art, music and making a creative life.
One of the conversations in the EATT archive brought together art, music, writing and the practical reality of building a creative life.
The conversation with artist and musician Martin became less about fitting into one creative category and more about how different forms of work can live alongside one another — painting, music, writing, conversation and publishing.
The original conversation was published in 2015 and remains part of the EATT archive.
Creativity doesn’t always stay in its lane.
Looking back, that feels increasingly important.
Art does not necessarily arrive as one finished object. Sometimes it is a collection of experiments, conversations and different ways of seeing — each one feeding the next.
Explore the original artist and musician story and conversation.