Blood of the Sun, 2016
Installation: 16 mm color film and cedar deck with lime wash
Dimensions vary

Blood of the Sun is a video-sculptural installation with lithograph exploring architectural and historical archetypes of New England and its industrial past. Installed in deCordova Museum’s black-box media gallery, the installation included a looped 16mm color film of a hand playing a single chord on a Hammond organ above a wall-to-wall cedar deck/floor white-washed with the silhouette of a whaling boat.

Blood of the Sun’s inspiration comes from the story of Owen Coffin, a young sailer who’s fate is tied to the Essex, a storied whaling ship from New England. The piece existing as an ode, uses film, sound and sculpture to explore regional forms, materials and myths surrounding shipbuilding, whaling and personal narratives.

Blood of the Sun was commissioned by deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum for The 2016 New England Biennial of Art.