And Not a Voyage Complete

Video, 2012
01:55 (black & white, stereo sound)

Work created for Moby Dick Big Read, curated by Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne, in response to the Pequod’s long search for the White Whale.

I thought of old journeys at sea, the anticipation and the peril, crossing the ocean in search of whales, of unknown lands, of adventure. And then I thought of the families waiting at home while these long, very long, voyages took place. The ship became a home for mariners for long periods of time. So I re-imagined the home becoming a world of unsettled scale where the ticking of the clock is the clicking song of sperm whales, the dining table an ocean and the doily a complex net of tracks. And a model ship, half torn, half forgotten, sails past to the ghostly tune of an imaginary sea-shanty, over the unmoving sea of wood and glass.