THE UNDERTOW

The Undertow.

Mary Branson 2024

Smoked fired clay, steel, audio: 9’30”.

Looking to the horizon, standing on the edge of land and sea, the roar of the undertow signals to me that a seismic shift is taking place - and the world I know is passing. I sense my home is leaving me.

This work is an installation of sound vessels that seek to combine the power of the sea and the fragility of our breath – to capture a place where they meet and to try to articulate the existential distress of Solastalgia.

The hand-built anthropomorphic clay forms are porous, infused with the smoke of seaweed and sheep’s wool during firing.

With special thanks to Mat Clark and Edd Jordan.