sea of change, 2024

acrylic with inlaid text, custom mechanics, electronics
acrylic: Marc Littlejohn
programming: Gerald Grison
36”w x 11”h x 11”d
ed. of 3

Working from the positionality that all life forms are interconnected, the kinetic sculpture sea to change uses language as an oscillator to bring forward alternating messages / meanings found in vernacular phrases and idiomatic expressions as prompts to action / change and / or a paradigm shift. As such, what is written as “sea” by times is meant to be read as “see”. The semiotic interplays are intended to address the separations of “bodies from bodies” (as in us from water) that language produces and reinforces through categorizations, and to disrupt and problematize textual reading and interpretation, suggesting further intersubjectivity.

 

SEA      OF       CHANGE

SEA      WE      CHANGE

SEA      ME      CHANGE

SEA      BE      CHANGE

SEA      GO      CHANGE

SEA      NO      CHANGE

SEA      IF       CHANGE

SEA      TO      CHANGE

 

Exhibition History

2024    pieces of you are pieces of me, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.