FADE
Made for 'Ananas and the Flatifish', Solo show, PEER Nov 2020 - January 2021
'Fade' is a water-powered slide projector, made from wood and ceramic. The work takes the first self recording tidal gauge, an observation device erected on the Isle of Sheppey in 1830 as its starting point.
The tidal gauge communicated the movement of a float in the sea through pulleys, cogs and a pencil to draw and measure the tide onto a revolving cylinder of paper, as if the sea was drawing itself.
Visitors to PEER witnessed a short performance where a projected image of a seascape gradually appears to be flooding.
Drips of water operate a shutter that rises and falls like the tide.