Fiji Water, 2013
1L spring water bottles, LED lights, custom MDF plinths

Commissioned for The Source, 13 July – 13 October, 2013, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Fiji Water consists of a collection of various brands of bottled spring water upon a group of plinths, glowing faintly within a darkened gallery.

It is a response to ‘Litre of Light’: a global open-source movement that aims to provide ecologically and economically sustainable indoor lighting to underprivileged households e.g. in developing communities where electricity is either expensive or unavailable. It consists of a simple mechanism: a PET bottle filled with chlorinated water is inserted into the roof of a house – half in, half out – thus acting as a lens through which natural daylight is diffused as workable, indoor lighting. Fiji Water, however, is divorced from this environmental and social context – elevated, instead, as objets d'art.