Nicholas Fraser

Extra Limb

 

seaweed wrapped foam texts

8' x 14' each wall

2011

 

A site specific installation in a former munitions warehouse on Governors Island in NY Harbor. Each seaweed letter subtly shifts form with temperature and humidity changes.

 

The text imagines discovering an extra limb and trying to figure out its purpose, a metaphor for the re-purposing of the island (a former military base being slowly converted to a city park) into a public space.

Extra Limb

seaweed wrapped foam texts, 8' x 14' each wall, 2011

 

A site specific installation in a former munitions warehouse, each seaweed wrapped letter subtly shifts form with temperature and humidity changes.

 

The text imagines discovering an extra limb and trying to figure out its purpose, a metaphor for the re-purposing of the island into a public space.