The Abyssal Zone

The sea as a surface upon which ships sailed and which enabled Spanish trade and colonial expansion is represented in these previous works. In several of the series made for Blueprint for the DisOrder of Things I extended the spaces to represent what lay below the surface of the sea, incorporating fish and deep-sea divers into the works.

With The Abyssal Zone installation I dropped several depths below, evoking another sort of expansion and desire to acquire a different sort of power and wealth, one that is not on land but that lies on the ocean floor and is ironically tied to green energy.

The unfathomable depths and wondrous lives lived below the surface of the sea, the vastness of the galaxies and the equally unfathomable layers of the unconscious gravitated together in the blue-lit space of this installation which conjures up the liminal space of the night, dreams and hauntings.

This project began with veils created for the Spier Light Arts Festival and extended into an installation The Abyssal Zone at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda and includes poetic responses to the images as part of the Agitation conference held at the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand.

https://christinedixie.com/exhibitions/spier-light-art-festival

https://christinedixie.com/exhibitions/the-abyssal-zone

https://christinedixie.com/publications/the-abyssal-zone