This cache was placed as a part of the Great Eastlink Geocache Project. The Project involved 25 Geocaching Teams from the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne who combined their efforts in July 2008 to create the largest cache series in Australia in which each cache in the series is individually owned by one team.
"Though I'm passed one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still; And I think my spaceship knows which way to go, Tell my wife I love her very much she knows.....
Ground control to Major Tom: Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you ..."
“A Collision of Abstraction and Ornamentation...” This is the heading to the description of The Desiring Machine. This piece of art (!!) is lying on its side beside the tollway looking (at least in my eyes) like the skeleton of a Saturn Rocket Booster which has fallen from the sky. Dak would probably say “Yes, but is it art?”. According to the artist, Simeon Nelson it is. Some of the description from the Connect East web site says the following;
“Desiring Machine is a fallen tree/tower lying by the roadway. It is a crashed relic of machine-age desire putting down new roots into the earth and unfurling tendrils from it’s architectonic radii and sections. To motorists speeding past, it is an indeterminate blur, a silhouetted filigree that might be a decaying windmill or other piece of obsolete agricultural machinery – a relic of the struggle of humans to co-exist with nature. The cause of this optical confusion is a vegetal motif, a floral border from a 19th century pattern book that has been adapted to form the base unit of the modular system of this sculpture which is composed of three repeated modular units generated from the ‘original’ pattern.”
You can read the rest of the artist’s description on the Connect West Web Site at;
www.connecteast.com.au and click on the heading Eastlink Environment.
Happy hunting.