At work on the group of works titled "Voyages" (1989). "These works took the ship – the Ship of Fools, the slave vessel, the ships of the voyages of discovery – as its central theme. On these vessels, groups of figures work hard; rowing, pulling, hoisting, bellowing, going nowhere. These are ships unworthy to sail, rusted, broken, their sides split open. They are full of survivors, both perpetrators and victims, driven crazy by violence, repression ... destined to sail to no new destination ..." (Skotnes 1998, catalogue for the exhibition Thomas and the Bone Yard).
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Studio Shot 1989
At work on the group of works titled "Voyages" (1989). "These works took the ship – the Ship of Fools, the slave vessel, the ships of the voyages of discovery – as its central theme. On these vessels, groups of figures work hard; rowing, pulling, hoisting, bellowing, going nowhere. These are ships unworthy to sail, rusted, broken, their sides split open. They are full of survivors, both perpetrators and victims, driven crazy by violence, repression ... destined to sail to no new destination ..." (Skotnes 1998, catalogue for the exhibition Thomas and the Bone Yard).
