Celestial Bodies
Street projection, 3 channels

A new series which ties together the sea and the cosmos as vast bodies that never touch. It is a poetic attempt to embrace glittering spectral bodies; at once our own and all else born of dead stars.
This work also includes a 16mm short film and an accompanying poem:

An ascension and sinking, swells
conjured between the divine


and the dark. The Two together apart


are a Sisyphean attempt
bigger than your house,
to posthumously finish building


a 55 foot skeleton, a boat frame.


Here, Fata Morgana breathes.
Due diction, a spectral fiction starts


in a ship's absence and ruin.
Atmospheres and celestial bodies never touch


the sea, but they swallow the vessel.


-Melody Woodnutt

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