THE WHITE CONTINENT, 2023
The six sets of The White Continent are each assembled from three different rocks collected in Antarctica. Humble relics of a life-changing expedition, their simplicity stands for the enormously small lesson in perspective that sailing to such a place teaches. So long preserved from us humans by only existing in our fantasies, the “white continent” does not live up to its nickname: it shatters it–along with so many of our other assumptions about the world. As the colorful rocks demonstrate, Antarctica is not so white at all.
Indeed, being in Antarctica feels like a continuous reminder that nothing is quite as we imagine it to be–a humbling lesson that can only be learned by those who approach it slowly, on nature’s terms: by sailing. Hence the bowline knots–the life-saving knots used to secure the boat to rocks when attempting to dock on the continent’s rugged coast. Together, these small constellations of rock and rope form compact, distilled verses of experience—quiet haikus of the willingness to be proven wrong.
The White Continent, 2023
Rocks collected in Antarctica and bowline knotted rope
30 x 20 cm (framed)
