On Holiday
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2011-03-04
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Victorian College of the Arts
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Sylvester, D. (2011). On Holiday. [light jet print]. Various.
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'On Holiday' features a 1:1 scale fabrication of the decommissioned Concorde with original cutlery purchased via eBay. Overlooking a sunrise, an elite traveller gazes at an unknown destination. This photograph plays on the minds interpretation of luxury aspirations, where the Concorde promised a future of supersonic travel that is now buried in history, existing only as a symbol of a decadent past. Using visual sleights used by advertising where travel is marketed as a way of both living in the moment and creating cherished memories, this work acts as a memory, a collective memory of what travel on the Concorde may have been.