battleship

The winter of 2020-21 was not cold but it was a bad winter, stuck at home, sheltering. Since the previous summer I had been working on sculptures of tugboats in ceramic and as the season changed I started to draw some battleships. I had had an interest in them for some time, never knowing how to make the project material. The move from tugboats to battleships did seem both more ominous and edgy.

The size of battleships, their colors and organization are all fascinating: what they stand for, their meaning. The incorporation of physical violence and its randomness in a single object is a perfect symbol of these difficult times, not only the micro of politics and warfare but the macro of dramatic climate change and inconceivable social instability.