Rose Staff’s projection work for Buddha’s Birthday explores light as a primary medium, drawing on its impermanent and ephemeral qualities to reflect core Buddhist principles of impermanence, interdependence and mindful awareness. Weightless and intangible, light becomes a poetic analogue for consciousness and the transient nature of experience, inviting contemplation rather than attachment.
Referencing the Buddhist association of awakening with illumination, these moving projections offer a contemporary visual language for perception as a relational process — where light is only visible through its interaction with surfaces, colour, texture and shadow. In this way, the work reflects ideas of emptiness and interconnectedness, suggesting that nothing exists independently and that meaning arises through conditions, presence and attention.
*Please note: the projection at 301 Hampshire Road is at the rear of the building.
Projections are visible after dark.
Brimbank City Council respectfully acknowledges and recognises Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples as the Traditional Custodian of this land and pays respect to their Elders, past , present and future.
Brimbank City Council respectfully acknowledges and recognises Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples as the Traditional Custodian of this land and pays respect to their Elders, past , present and future.
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