An inland soul at sea

by Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff, 2003

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Listen to 4 minutes of the 7 minute soundtrack at a low quality.

An inland soul at sea 2003.
Each of the 19 resin forms is approximately
30 x 20 x 10 cm.

The 10 minute soundscape that accompanies these hanging forms, incorporates music by Ben Koen & Joe Fiedler (from the "Reliance" cd) (U.S.A.), and by Brenda Liddiard and Mark Laurent (from their "Stations of the Cross" cd) (New Zealand).

"An inland soul at sea" the title for this work, is a phrase from a poem by the American Emily Dickinson.

19 boat-like forms suspended in crocheted nets hang like a fleet of floating forms. Each 'boat-form' is a differing shade of translucence and is prism-like, bending and distorting the light. When hung inside they are lit from underneath so shadows are created on the walls and ceiling.

The materials are nylon cord (length about 2 metres) and cast resin forms (each is about 50 cm in the longest dimension and each weighs about 200 grams.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff
An inland soul at sea, at the Performances Conditionelles Festival, 2003, in Taller, France.

detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff

Detail: One of the hanging forms in the exhibibition, Oceania, in Terpkerk (Terp Church), Urmond, The Netherlands.

Above: An inland soul at sea, at the Performances Conditionelles Festival in Taller, France.

Shown

2005

Grounds for Designs in the Museum of Design and
Architecture, London, U.K.

2005

The Saravego Winter Festival in the Nine Dragon Heads Exhibition, Saravego, Bosnia Herzegovina.

2004

Nine Dragon Heads
Environment Arts Festival,
Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery,
South Korea.

2004

Oceania, solo show, Terpkerk,
Urmond, Limburg, The Netherlands.

2003

Performances Conditionelles,
arts festival, Terpkerk, Taller,
France.

Exhibited in during the 9 Dragonheads Environments Arts Festival,
Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery, South Korea. April 2004.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

The two sculptures on the wall are by other artists. The objects swayed when walked under and so did the shadows.

Installation in Oceania, 2004. View the rest of this image (61 kb)
Left to right underneath: Between you and me (mask); A Tangled Tale; Found Objects (objects in deep frame); In You I Have Treasured... (lithograph and silkscreen print); Found Objects (lithograph and silkscreen print)

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While this work was a starting point - a moment for meditation - there is no particular viewing point. These boats forms can also be seen as suspended islands.

Details of An inland soul at sea, an installation of hanging objects and a soundscape, here, in the exhibition Oceania, 2004.

detail of an installation by Sonja van Kerkhoff
Photo: Leo Klein, The Netherlands.

	Installed in March 2003.

Below, Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery, South Korea.
Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

The lighting coloured the work.

16 of them arranged on the floor of the Cheong-Ju City Art Gallery before hanging them.

New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, during the XX Sarajevo Winter Festival, 2005, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Installion made out of cast resin with a soundscape by Sonja van Kerkhoff

In the grounds of the MoDa (Museum of Architecture and Design), London, U.K., April-July 2005.

Other work in the 2004 Nine Dragonheads Environment Arts Festival

The Wedding, Daechang Lake, South Korea.
Dans le Jardin des beaux arts, Cheongju City Art Gallery, Nine Dragonheads festival.
Change is a Law of Nature, Cheongju City Art Gallery, Nine Dragonheads festival opening.
Nine Dragonheads Festival: Most of the 33 artists' work -photos I took at the festival.

Outdoor works

Fruit, six hang cast resin forms, 2006.
Nga Hau e Wha (The Four Winds/Breaths), metal sculpture, 2004.
Generating Plant, custom-made birdhouse form, 2004.
The Wedding, intervention/installation during the 9 Dragonheads festival, 2004.
Inland Soul at Sea, 19 hanging forms, 2003.
Colonising Oxford, performances and installations on the streets, 2002.
Fruits of the Earth, installation/intervention, 2003.
With fire we test the gold and with gold we test our servants, wooden sculpture at a Sculpture Symposium in a park in Northern Romania, 2003.
Parking Spaces for Important Visitors, relief painted panels, 2001.
Inspiration, paintings on shaped canvas laid on the floor, 2001.
Just pour les oiseaux (Strictly for the birds), installations and performances during a walk through a forest setting led by a guide, 2001.
Onder vier ogen (Between you and me) , mask-forms hung on trees, with texts and images in the orifices, 2001.
Dans le jardin des beaux arts, 19 snail forms, (in various locations), 2000-2006.
The Living Creature, performances in a rose garden in a public park in London, 1999.
Change is a Law of Nature, 1996, performances on the streets, in Hull and London, U.K. (repeated in other locations in 2001, 2002, and 2004).
Memorials, ceramic tiles laid into the earth, 1996-2001.
Te Koru Iwa, fire drawing at the Oerol Arts Festival, The Netherlands, 1996.
Letters van de Levende :: Letters of the Living, 19 batiked flags, 1996.