Rodney Glick
PICAPOOL, 2007
Stitched tarpaulin
2000 x 900cm
photo: Tony Nathan
Lap Pool is the kernel from which developed the PICAPOOL. Covering up the floor of the three galleries on the ground floor PICAPOOL is mainly intended to be viewed from the mezzanine level of PICA with its elevated vantage point revealing the basic visual illusionism of the piece. All the key features of a swimming pool - underwater demarcations, shadows, reflections, diving boards as well as, of course, the water surface itself - are visualised by a geometric patchwork of differently coloured tarpaulin. But the realism of the visual effect is tenuous; perceptually the pool is always on the verge of dissolving into an abstract geometrical pattern.