Bahamas Streetworks 2004

An opportunity to stay on Exuma Island in the Bahamas produced a series of Streetworks that express a different kind of presence in a place where quiet charm bumps heads with crass progress amid exquisite surrounds; and all the while flanked by traces of fractured histories and the spoils of the everyday. Materials abound as washed and worn forms that collect along the beaches, bays and cays, as weathered and bleached items discarded along the roads, or as fragments found among abandoned buildings. Fashioned into a range of objects that were knitted and knotted together using lines of wires, fibers, ropes and mesh retrieved from the foreshores, the Streetworks were installed at various junctions along the Queens Highway and in and around Georgetown. Still Swimmer, a small piece made from wooden flotsam, a comb, electrical wire and plastic mesh, was found a day after installation floating in Kidd Cove-it was re-installed and attached to a tree stump near the beach on Hoopers Bay. Maybe tossing away things not only junks the present but dumps the past.

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