High Tide

                                                                                                                   

Media: fabric, wire , anchor, mirror        ^{collaborated with Jennifer Thornton}
Dimension: 30x60 feet  
Year: 2018

 

                                                                   

  _{The ocean is a dynamic presence, a calm intrusion, a reflective place, a telling force. It will both preserve and destroy. Fort Adams is the rock on which the storm shall beat, protecting the land from the sea. It is the first line of defense, a monument to entropy in our collective memory and to the natural world. The water suspended here is an alarm for the future and a blanket to the past.}  

The site was called Fort Adams. And it was a former United States Army post in Newport, Rhode Island which protected the land from the sea. It was used as a fort from 1799 to 1953 and now is used as State Park. I collaborated with my partner Jennifer Thornton who was really into environmental issues like sea level rise. And I wanted talk about lost and forgotten memories since almost everything there was left as they had been without being repaired, as if they were sunk deep in the sea. When people look down to the sea, they could think about the lost memories of the past and when they go down and look upwards, they could think about the memories which might be lost in the future.