Adrift
Adrift elides physical and virtual space while challenging ephemeral notions of home. The digital structure floats perpetually on the ocean in response to real-time atmospheric data from a weather station in the Atlantic Ocean. As the viewer experiences the piece, the house drifts and turns as it would if it were floating in physical space.
Adrift functions as a historical representation of my grandmother's experience, and by extension, all resettled homes. The house also acts as another form of resettlement to a third, imaginary dimension still influenced by its geographical context: whereby the image prevails over the thing it is an image of. The virtual space, linked to an actual place via data, becomes a third space of hybridity accessed by the window of technology.
While technology allows us to access this hybrid space, it also challenges the real and actual, the near and far. It reminds us that neither a resettled resident nor their home can ever return to their origins.
Adrift
Adrift elides physical and virtual space while challenging ephemeral notions of home. The digital structure floats perpetually on the ocean in response to real-time atmospheric data from a weather station in the Atlantic Ocean. As the viewer experiences the piece, the house drifts and turns as it would if it were floating in physical space.
Adrift functions as a historical representation of my grandmother's experience, and by extension, all resettled homes. The house also acts as another form of resettlement to a third, imaginary dimension still influenced by its geographical context: whereby the image prevails over the thing it is an image of. The virtual space, linked to an actual place via data, becomes a third space of hybridity accessed by the window of technology.
While technology allows us to access this hybrid space, it also challenges the real and actual, the near and far. It reminds us that neither a resettled resident nor their home can ever return to their origins.