BOILING SEAS ACID SEAS VIDEO 2024
Boiling Seas Acid Seas
Video, 2024. Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
The first iteration of Boiling Seas Acid Seas was shown in the 2024 exhibition, Life Boat, at APT Gallery in London.
The second iteration is included in the Royal West of England 171 Annual Open Exhibition in Bristol, England, on view from 14 September 2024 – 5 January 2025.
Above: Installation stills and short excerpts. Photo credit: Ben Deakin
I have been taking video imagery of wetlands, watersheds and waves for several years and have recently begun to work with my watery archive. In Boiling Seas Acid Seas, I have used high-key unnaturalistic colours to conflate ideas of beauty and peril. Although I have changed the colours, I have not altered the sound. In filming wetlands in the shadow of highways, I became interested in the divergence of image and sound and what the sound revealed about the location beyond the frame.