A Myth of Reincarnation-an Inverted Space, 2016-present
The myth of the whale reincarnated into planes; a space of inversion.
There is a myth that the whales slaughtered in the 19th Century, have been reincarnated as airplanes. As airplanes, they continue to travel the globe in one another's flight paths, while reclaiming their once harvested oil as fuel.
As the whaling industry sought to find more whaling grounds, whaler's pushed the boundaries of global exploration. What they left in their wake changed the course of the world we inhabit today.
The myth of the whales being reincarnated as airplanes, brings the past into the present. The correlations between whale and plane, brings our historic relationship with whales into a direct conversation with that of humanity’s exploitation of the natural world.
In these galleries you will find three bodies of work that explore this myth within the space of an inverted landscape.
