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All images and
text:
©2004/5 Wenyon & Gamble |
Met Office, Exeter
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Susan
Gamble
Michael Wenyon
© 2006 Wenyon & Gamble
wengam@myprivacy.ca
Modified: 2 January 2006 |
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Our title refers not only
to our automated digital camera but also to the workings of the buoy itself. We chose
the ‘buoy’ as an instrument of contemporary meteorological development. This buoy
was one of many sited off the West coast of the British Isles and Ireland after the
Great Storm of 1987, an event we could recall from our own history. These anthropomorphic-like
devices are unmanned weather stations. We took this image from a dinghy circling
the buoy--the wind and the tide push and pull the craft to and from the subject.
Installation of the finished photograph was completed in January 2004 in "The
Street" lobby area of the Met Office's new building in Exeter, Devon, England.
Four other artists made work for the building.
Commission by the Met Office. Produced with assistance of the Royal Maritime Auxiliary
Services (RMAS Salmaid) and the Marine Engineering Department of the Met Office.
Commission consultant was Tom Littlewood of Gingko Projects Ltd.
further images
below
UK
Met Office
(external link)
for map showing the location of K1 and current data, click here, and then on "K1" (external
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Automated
Observations, Wenyon & Gamble, 2003, digital photograph, 1 x 6.5 metres,
installation at the Met Office headquarters building, Exeter, Devon, England (January
2004)
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