Sublime Seas

featuring the work of Krzysztof Lower

Installation

Creating a space that one can fully experience and immerse themselves in was the goal of this project. After deciding to use white string to highlight an ordinarily normal space, my group decided to work outdoors. We liked the idea of the outdoors being unclaimed, neutrally charged territory.

Through many iterations, we discovered the difficulties in creating an inviting space--not a singular, focused spot. String is an interesting medium just in its metaphoric properties of linkage. When "linking" trees together, we discovered that wrapping string around the trees created undesirable tension. In addition, having the string terminate in a nonapparent manner was important in the viewer's notion of the space. Finally, it is extremely easy to create a plane when combining, at minimum, three strings.

Ultimately, power is gained through documentation and this booklet is meant to serve as a record of the experience of our installation project.