BOILING SEAS ACID SEAS VIDEO 2024


 
 
 
 
 
 

Boiling Seas Acid Seas

Video, 2024. Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Boiling Seas Acid Seas was shown:

Life Boat, APT Gallery, London, 2024
Royal West of England 171 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol, England, 2024 – 2025
Landscape: Divergent Views, Duke Gallery, Community Art Center, Wallingford, PA, 2025

Above: Installation stills and short excerpts. Photo credit: Ben Deakin

I have been taking video footage of wetlands, watersheds and waves for several years and have worked with my watery archive to make Boiling Seas Acid Seas. I have used high-key unnaturalistic colours to conflate ideas of beauty and peril, but 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.