The Boat Has Sailed, Hasn't It?
Single channel installation, HD Video, continuous loop (color/sound)
2019
Video Installation at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The project comprises three parts: a fish's funeral speech, a seesaw boat, and a floating dock on Wesserunsett Lake, Maine. The voiceover presents what the artist calls "boat conversations," produced on a wooden seesaw boat built during the Skowhegan residency in 2018. The video explores the relationship between the floating dock and the wooden boat, tracing an uncertain and searching navigation. Paddling emerges as a compulsive activity, a means of passing time and creating form from near nothing, while its rhythm generates a heightened awareness of the time and labor embedded in the work.
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