Rise and Fall - 8/12/22 at 8:09 pm, 2022, photograph documenting a site-specific projection
Rise & Fall is a site-specific projected installation from Eastport, Maine, which is located on long standing traditional and continuing Passamaquoddy homelands. Documented in photograph and video, Rise & Fall is a response to the recent history of US’s easternmost city, once the second largest trading port in the country, which has seen boom and bust cycles, as the 18 foot tides of Passamaquoddy Bay cycle up and down. In this projection—on one of the last standing sardine canning factories that formerly dotted the shores of Eastport—two lines part and re-merge every 12 minutes and 25 seconds, each minute representing an hour of tidal change.
“There were tides in the new earth, long before there was an ocean”
Rise and Fall - 8/16/22 at 8:15 pm, 2022, photograph documenting a site-specific projection
“There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. No other force that the sea is so strong.”
— Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us