Desert Bus Stop

Bus stops are the places where we get on, offering a point for delivery and a place of surety. Michael Wegerer encountered a bus stop within a desert community in the north of Australia, a transit station; a space that embodied waiting.
Wegerer wrapped the bus stop in plastic cling film and using black marker pens carefully traced all lines within the structure, including graffiti.
The tracing became a pattern for the reconstruction of the bus stop, a shelter made in paper as a life size model, a fragile residue and a proposition.

Wegerer’s impulse in making this work appears to be centered on incongruity, the impossibility of a bus shelter standing alone in the northern Australian desert, capturing the parallelisms and convergences between land, shelter, ownership and reality. He recognizes that all visitors to this bus stop will see it differently and that the various visions associated with this work filtered through the Australian perspective are as complex as any language.
This delicate paper work is not a permanent construction and will cease to exist after a time. Wegerer’s bus stop is a momentary and residual echo, and a thoughtful ghost.

Peter Westwood, RMIT University Melboune