At Sea Level
2020. Oil paint on a used British Airways inflight blanket. 121cm x 168cm.
In a mild early November on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, I sat silently for three days with a used British Airways inflight blanket and some white oil paint. Sitting on the same rock, from just after a falling tide to just moment before being submerged again at high tide (an average mean height at sea level), I painted only white over the blanket. In silence on the edge of the vast ocean, this solitary process of painting one colour on one object while sat on the same rock became deeply mediative and transcendental.
At Sea Level is a painting on an object that once was up there in the sky, high above the clouds and over the ocean and land, then grounded and down to earth in our world now through this pandemic we go through.
Documentation photos of the painting on the coast were taken by myself with a drone camera.