Artwork description:

'We set out in her with caution, sending our frothy puddles shorewards over the sand, exchanging shallow turquoise and deep teal for choppy indigo sea. With every lean, we felt the strain of a thousand oarsmen before us, dressed in these striped cotton vests, their buttocks pinched against the wooden planks. The gig began to lift.

In the rush of air that sounded beneath, I heard how she had ridden these waters before, like a phantom narwhal in the dead of night. How her rowers climbed aboard half-grounded ships for a fistful of cash. How those that were left gathered up cargo from the wreck, fished out the coconuts that knocked against her hull, raced home beside the other gigs named Longkeel, Golden Eagle, Swift…'

From an edition of 25 prints. All prints are individually signed and numbered on the reverse and printed on Fuji Flex glossy C-type archival paper for the crispest quality.

70 x 45 cm

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Ink

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