A loop of four separate short works featured in the merrier, 21 July–28 October 2017 at Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena, Dunedin. Each video operates in Parkes trademark style, applying deliberate shifts of perspective to amplify pattern, movement and line.
Works include: parapara sunrise (2016) legs eleven (2017) wise man's dress (2014) kick inside (2016).
Installation view of the merrier (2017), at Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena (2017)
A chest hangs neatly from a wooden fence on the other side of a window.
A visual joke, a sleight of hand, a sunset appears and disappears.
The reflection and distortion of light and brief moments when our vision is disrupted.
The discarded plastic wrapping for a bouquet of flowers and light flickering along its edge.