Description
About this piece:
The Sea is Solid is an artist’s book about the intersection of European and Polynesian exploration in the South Pacific and Arctic regions. The pages include found images and text laser printed onto translucent paper and set into an accordion frame. It comes with a case printed with images of navigational stick charts from the Pacific. The Text reads: A few Polynesians boarded passing European ships and worked as crew members. A Tuvaluan named Telava made it as far as the Antarctic ice, and commemorated the event by naming his granddaughter Taimalo: ‘the sea is solid.’
The Sea is Solid was designed using found images and text from “South Pacific peoples – Early migration,” Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, by Carl Walrond.
Materials:
paper, binders board
About the artist:
Lives and works in Hawaii, United States
Jody Arthur is a book artist, printmaker and writer. She was born in American Samoa and currently resides in Hawaii. Her transitory life inspires her work, which is concerned with travel and migratory patterns. She has created installation pieces and artist’s books that explore historical and personal migrations in the South Pacific. She received a B.A. in English literature at Lewis and Clark College, an M.F.A. in creative writing at Mills College, and an M.F.A. in printmaking and book arts at the University of the Arts.
