MELODY WOODNUTT | The Apparition

"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather Frank's unfinished boat which he was making out of love for his wife. Upon Frank's death, the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long, 9m wide bare skeleton - unfinished for 40 years with no hull, having never seen the sea. The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition. The Apparition conjures a siren's call from beyond the spectral veil - seen here as a death shroud made for the boat out of wool and silk - it is a call into the deepest of seas to discover what answers us." - Melody Woodnutt

 

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