Aqua Profonda [Images]

<p dir="ltr">Photographs of ephemeral work 'Aqua Profonda' created during the 'Surfacity' workshop at MPavilion Parkville, October.</p><p dir="ltr">The work shown here in 3 photographs taken on 9/10/25 references the iconic 'Aqua Profonda' mural at Fitzroy pool while also featuring a provocation/comment on the potential (and reality) of pools to act as high quality community climate adaptation infrastructure.</p><p dir="ltr">I undertook the graphic lettering while other parts were undertaken by unknown others including the two textile pieces (one of which I adopted as a pool), the grey solid base, surface pasting, and stippling in the corner. The green person and spiral were added after I left but before I returned to take the picture.</p><p dir="ltr">More detail previously published on a LinkedIn post here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7383658215944798208-9OvG is below:</p><p dir="ltr">"On Thursday [9/10/25] I came back in the middle of a workshop on “Buffing” or Graffiti removal by Adrian Tanner…. A freshly recovered grey space was the perfect place for an idea I wanted to explore. A fabric piece with a turquoise blue base was left in the upper corner, that I co-opted as a swimming pool. I re-presented the iconic text of the deep end signage/mural “Aqua Profonda” at Fitzroy’s fabulous 50 metres pool, adding a note of the summer scenario of use of community pool as a source of cool, and quality, in extreme heat. When I came back to take a picture another layer, the green person had been added, and the image might have changed again after I left!</p><p dir="ltr">Swimming pools are critical, valuable, and very enjoyable, multi-use climate adaptation infrastructure. Unfortunately, swimming pools are not equally accessible across our city and suburbs. In many areas including growth areas and outer suburbs most vulnerable to extreme heat and bushfire threat pools are forgotten and unprovided infrastructure only accessible via a long car ride. Their provision is a spatial justice issue for quality of life that goes way beyond the simplistic view that public pools are just for swimming lessons for young children."</p>