Harpooned ATA, San Francisco, 2012
Harpooned, Artists' Television Access, window installation, June, 2012
"Harpooned" is a mixed-media installation composed of sculpted and sewn whales. The upside-down hooked whales hang suspended from a ceiling full of rigging- pulleys and hooks and ropes. As they dangle above a floor of pieces of mirror, the reflection of these whales seeks to resurrect the hooked whales back into an upright position. Wrapped around this sea of activity is a fifteen foot long drawing that includes referenced 19th century imagery; the procedural and effective ways to cut and use a sperm whale, reproductions of iconic whaling paintings, and abolitionist emblems, portraits and publications. There is also a drawn and painted map, illustrating the overlapping 19th Century whaling routes with that of the whale migration paths.
