90° Device, Beating

Andrew Drummond's 90° Device, Beating suggests the flat Canterbury landscape with its jagged coastline, and, like a heartbeat, the constantly pumped blue liquid brings to mind the region's braided rivers, or the arteries of the body.

Drummond has drawn on the idea that the land and the body are interconnected, and he explores the way science and medicine use technology. This work is part of a larger installation entitled For beating and breathing in which the body is portrayed as a complicated piece of machinery.