For the 2021 Enlighten Festival, Ross has created a vivid animation that transforms the National Gallery of Australia’s façade and asks us to think about museums as places that keep, acquire, and classify objects. In Ross’ vast work of art, a fluorescent moth with flapping wings unleashes chaos. Vitrines smash, specimens escape, and the museum tumbles down. In the wake of a flood that clears the rubble, Lake George emerges, as drawn by the colonial artist, Joseph Lycett, in 1825. Gold balloons spelling $BOUNTY$ float and later burst in the bright blue sky.
