MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still

"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather FrankÕs 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

MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still