Pillage of the sea
Artwork by Rosa Barba on the beach of Ostend.
“Pillage of the Sea” is a yardstick, in the shape of a tower of fabric casted bags, which gets activated and visible through the ocean’s tides. It is sometimes more visible than other times. At some point it will be completely invisible, when all fabric casted bags which represent a city are submerged by the water.
World cities like Jakarta, Chennai, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, and Miami are visualized by a sandbag whose size corresponds with the current population size of that city.
The bags are piled on top of each other like a balancing, fragile act. The position of each bag signifies the altitude of the place in relation to the sea level, which is constantly rising and the city names on the bag are fading and need to be remembered - re-signed from time to time.
Pillage of the sea
Artwork by Rosa Barba on the beach of Ostend.
“Pillage of the Sea” is a yardstick, in the shape of a tower of fabric casted bags, which gets activated and visible through the ocean’s tides. It is sometimes more visible than other times. At some point it will be completely invisible, when all fabric casted bags which represent a city are submerged by the water.
World cities like Jakarta, Chennai, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, and Miami are visualized by a sandbag whose size corresponds with the current population size of that city.
The bags are piled on top of each other like a balancing, fragile act. The position of each bag signifies the altitude of the place in relation to the sea level, which is constantly rising and the city names on the bag are fading and need to be remembered - re-signed from time to time.