Conflating personal and European history, this installation started as a short story.

Having written a fictional travel log, I went about creating the found objects described in the book. I did this using printmaking, ceramics, plaster casting, and the context of the residency itself. Each grouping of objects compliments instances in the log, from the description of an Edwardian study to the discovery of invertebrate fossils. This installation was a way of talking around my father’s 1990 round the world yacht race and his collision with an iceberg in the antarctic. I did this by using global histories of the industrial revolution and colonial expansion as a foil. The theory of evolution and its connection to the Wedgwood ceramics empire was explored with the NorthWest Passage as the setting. South Africa’s nuclear disarmament is touched on by way of an old Blue Planet episode. This work was the culmination of my year long residency, solidifying my interest in narrative installations