Navigating History - video and object installation
Moving back through history to the age of sail led to a desire to play with the idea of ships in bottles and bottles in ships creating a prototype raft form from collected plastic bottles. It functioned as a sketch but encapsulated a key reoccupation: recycling and history or the recycling of history. Researching boat forms throughout the ages led to the Chinese "junk". As the term originated in maritime lingo in reference to old ropes this word is apt as the raw materials were literally junk - discarded bottles.
Just as these are waste from a system, the sailing vessels of old also
constitute the "fallout’ of history…..junk bottles containing
images of sailing ships that are also past their "usefulness"
in mainstream/military marine operations.
This is echoed in the soundtrack composed from sonic radar emissions, undersea exploration acoustics and waves of haunting siren like music.
