Lake Fill II - performance works to mark the first filling of hydro Lake Dunstan, Clyde, New Zealand by Lloyd Godman - © Lloyd Godman

Lake Fill II is a subsequent work to The Last Rivers Song - The Last Rivers Song was from 1983 - 4 before the filling of Lake Dunstan - Lake Fill I and II coincided with the actual filling of the lake.

Sculptural Artifacts used in the Performance sequence

"I had dreams, quixotic dreams, where I contemplated the earth and the river as having its own gigantic "earth" electrical circuit and people as an indirect extension of that circuit, or complex intricate components of a whole. I dreamt of strange ceremonial artifacts, conducting rods, dividers, induction coils, connectors etc artifacts from an invented mythology religious items from a different power. Soon I engaged in the making of conductive artifacts ( sculptures) from the remains of discarded objects of brass with past uses from past times. For months before the performance, I scoured the local scrap merchant's brass bins, selecting potential parts, laying them out to create new objects. I then fused these unrelated items into structures that resembled strange religious artifacts".

Lloyd Godman 1994

Fill conductive Artifact IX - 900 x 440 - 1993- Constructed Found Objects - Brass - from Death of a River - Lake Fill Series - Lloyd Godman