“MARINE STILL LIFE”, ANYTHING BUT
Recently landed: “Marine still life”, anything but
A new article on Marginalia takes a look at a catalogue essay in response to Rockpool, drawn up especially for Scarlet Sykes Hesterman, and Heather Hesterman and Sarah Tomasetti, Peradam Projects.
You have to squat to find yourself within Rockpool. Altering your form to fit within. Feel yourself a Swift-footed crab, your carapace now 8cm across, scuttling across the rocks in search of shelter or a meal of molluscs. Amidst the luminosity, sight Dead man’s fingers, an alga also known as a poetry of felty fingers, stag seaweed, green sponge, green fleece, and oyster thief; take your pick. To your left, anemones make clones of themselves, as Elephant snails, those large false limpets, hide in wait of nightfall. The tide is low, why not give yourself the tube-feet of a starfish.
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2nd of May, 2021
