The sea
A fathom is a unit of depth. It is also the act of trying to understand something that resists full comprehension.
Twelve shells, named for twelve real places along Vancouver Island's coastline — tidal passages, exposed headlands, water that runs sixteen knots through a narrows. Each one poured with pearl iridescent resin to answer a single question: what does light look like when it has travelled through sixty feet of water? Not darkness. A luminosity with no direct source.
The sea
A fathom is a unit of depth. It is also the act of trying to understand something that resists full comprehension.
Twelve shells, named for twelve real places along Vancouver Island's coastline — tidal passages, exposed headlands, water that runs sixteen knots through a narrows. Each one poured with pearl iridescent resin to answer a single question: what does light look like when it has travelled through sixty feet of water? Not darkness. A luminosity with no direct source.
