As country kids we took up every opportunity to see sophisticated Sydney. We were in awe of the teamwork and the originality of the idea.

I said at the time, ”I went to mock and stayed to pray.” I had not expected it to be so powerful.

I was seven and I remember walking over the material and seeing the bright coloured rope everywhere.

There’s so much potential in art, and people are free to do anything now.

As the wind lifted under the plastic, it gave the extraordinary impression that the sea was running up the cliffs—like an upward waterfall.

It some ways it looked very simple, in other ways it looked very complex… The play of shadows and light across it was amazing. It really had a living presence about it.