Massive Vessel, 2015
Corten steel and stainless steel
Massive vessel is a depiction of a stylised boat or small craft, fabricated from corten steel and stainless steel. A reduced simplified form, loosely based on that of the dory – a common at-bottomed, at-sided small craft once widely used for fishing. It is constructed in such a way as to suggest great weight and mass and a fatigued, fractured, slightly split appearance as if it has been loosely made from massive slabs that are beginning to come apart. Its dimensions are distorted so that it tapers to an insubstantial stern section. “My intention is to play with the emotional signature of the ‘vessel’… to create an object that suggest gravitas but ultimately rejects the viewer’s ability to take it seriously…”
