Rise and Fall - 8/12/22 at 8:09 pm, 2022, photograph documenting a site-specific projection
Rise & Fall is an ongoing series of site-specific projections that echoes the cycling coastal tides and the bust-and-boom cycles of the New England industrial waterfront.
Rise & Fall (Eastport) responds in particular to the recent history of US’s easternmost city: Eastport, Maine, called Muselenk by the Passamaquoddy people. Once the second largest trading port in the country, Eastport is today shadow of its former industrial power, while the 18 foot tides of Passamaquoddy Bay continue to cycle, unphased. 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