After the Deluge

The installation suggests the fragility and potential collapse of natural systems, their decay and renewal, in the poignant form of a felled and broken tree, screwed and bolted together suspended by filaments animated by the projected images. The material for the installation has been collected along the shores of the Tweed estuary, linking the work to the locality. The Boat Shed has been depicted in paintings of the 1780s and was used between 1901 and 1979 by Berwick Salmon Fisheries Co Ltd.

The installation is partly a proposition of a future when nature is being relived through incomplete memory or data. This desire to reconstruct nature, as if after the deluge, is initially despairing, but also gives us hope that humankind can undo the damage it has done to nature. The title refers to the materials used, the location and the theme of the show citing the redemption story of Noah in Genesis, the Ark possibly being a metaphor for gene banks.