BIMINI

Being born, growing up and having lived by the ocean in various parts of the world, for most of my life, I have a deeply routed affinity with it, which is also accompanied by a deeply routed fascination and fear of it’s vast, unknown depths and dangers. I am always in the end drawn back to the sea. In life, as I am in my Art. Particularly by the immense physical power it holds. The power to not only create and host life, but also the power to destroy. Quickly, but also gradually. Oceanic erosion is a phenomenon that to me invites itself as an intriguing source of sculptural inspiration. Especially geological erosion.

This sculptural wall mounting was inspired by an an underwater rock formation near the island of North Bimini in the Bimini chain of islands, known as “The Bimini Road”.

Made of large angular blocks of beachrock, measuring up to 4 meters (13 feet) in length, each these stones lie in an orderly, fifteen hundred feet long row along the seafloor and look as if they once had right-angled corners before being smoothed by natural erosion.

It is believed in some archaeological circles that this was part of the road system of the Lost Continent of Atlantis.

Plywood board, terracotta clay, wall filler, sand, acrylic paint, Recycled Hardwood Frame - 30x50cm