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Caroline
Bagenal
Sky Boats
2001-2002
Fiberglas
White Pine Grove
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An outdoor
exhibition space offers an opportunity to develop a dialogue between artwork
and the environment that I find rewarding and challenging. I chose to
create boats for Forest Hills Cemetery because of their actual use in
burial rites, such as those of the Egyptians and Vikings, and their presence
in myth and folklore as vessels for the soul's journey after death. Boats
also have rich associations with other container- coffins, cradles, seedpods,
and husks.
Suspended in the trees, moving slightly with the wind, these translucent
boats become animated and authoritative. They share our space. Their location
near a bridge gives us two vantage points. From below, the changing light
shimmers through Fiberglas. From the bridge, we see them at eye level,
floating through the air intent on their mysterious journey.
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