Infinity Forest interrupts the unassuming flow of people that move through the city everyday, oblivious to the subtle changes in scale and grain as they walk; the people that conveniently cut through Penfold’s Place to speed their journey from point to encounter a brief moment of concentrated nature, contained in a small reflective room.
Intrigued by the glimpse of the room framed in the archway at the entrance, people enter the laneway, their direct movement through it broken by the walls that span almost its entire width. Passage through the room is not forced – there is still room to move around it – but the surreal site of verdant green entices them to climb the stairs, where on entering the tiny room they discover an infinite forest.
Infinity Forest is a place of reciprocal inversions, a nature in the city, contained yet infinite, the buildings that tower over the lane are domesticated by the room; the city is reduced to the scale of the intimate as the reflected fragments of the street are endlessly recombined with the infinite forest.
Developed in collaboration with Matt Chan and Isabel Cordeiro, Infinity Forest is part of the City of Sydney’s ‘BY GEORGE’ Laneways Project. As part of the Art and About Festival, Infinity Forest will be installed in Pendfold’s Place from October 2009 – January 2010.
The project has been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Architecture and Design, and on Fbi Radio