Created: 20170518
Source: NewhavenHabourArm⋅EastSussex⋅England⋅UK
Collection Date: 20141025
'Survive the Savage Sea' was constructed from the foraged plastic refuse from the coastline adjacent to the Newhaven Harbour Arm, directly below Newhaven Fort on a bright and sunny late autumn afternoon in Sussex. This is one of my most specific and direct representational pieces from the foraged series of works to date. I have manipulated various found objects by cutting and glueing together as I often do as I expand ideas.
The title refers to the famous sea survival story of the Robertson family in the 1970s, and is the title of Dougal Robertson’s subsequent account of the family’s 38 days adrift in the Pacific. He went on to write ‘Sea Survival: A Manual', an essential seafarer’s companion. Here I refer to diet, techniques and deliver a skipper of stoic focus, I imagine, alone on the open sea, surviving with purpose and confidence.
