Celestial Bodies
Street projection, 3 channels
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
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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Archival pigment print from 16mm still frame, 2023.

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Archival pigment print from 16mm still frame, 2021.
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Archival pigment print from 16mm still frame, 2021.