Donald Buglass was the Wharepuke Dalton Trust artist in residence in 2019. Donald came to the Wharepuke Sculpture Park in October 2019 to make Dreams of Flight, a mixed media interactive work based around an old boat that was donated for the project.

Donald Buglass says of the work ” Dreams of Flight is a playful, interactive installation. In my wee boat, eclectically and eccentrically decorated and activated by exercise, are deeper meanings and various metaphors of mankind’s’ desire for exploration and collection of knowledge.

Based loosely on extinction through human contact, Dreams of Flight has also been a developing process influenced by site responsive forces and resources which included personal response to the concept and situations.

The work is made from the boat, an old rowing exercise machine and carved wood. There is also a movement activated sound component that plays the sounds of the sea to accompany the dreaming flyer.