As The Tides Grow Closer, 2021-22

As The Tides Grow Closer (2021-22) is an experimental moving image work, in which archival footage from the Prelinger Archives and new material made by the artist over the last decade at various intervals across the world are montaged together. Foregrounding myriad seas and coast lines that are undefinable, the work explores the utopian ideas of freedom, the sublime contrasted against the dystopian reality of restricted movement. We are in an era of profound ecological and humanitarian crisis, where the notion of “home” becomes even more pertinent. Arranged as fragmentary portals or mirrors tethered to the world, the work seeks to ask whether we are capable of change. Through strategies of accumulation and abstraction ‘As Tides Grow Closer’ reflects on the hybrid identity of nature, where the collision and layering of sequenced frames, evokes both a stillness alongside a turbulent journey through shared water governed by invisible lines and the fabrication of borders.


As The Tides Grow Closer, 2021-22
Single-channel video with audio
2 minutes 57 seconds