Swash was created for Strand Ephemera, a ten day sculpture walk event in Townsville, Queensland Australia, September 2 - 12 2011.
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
The work spanned 200m tracing the area just above the high-tide mark across the sandy beach between two small headlands.
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
'Swash' is a meandering path of feathers tracing the high-tide mark. The word 'Swash' means splash or spray area above the high-tide mark but it is not a fixed demarcation, it moves with the littoral drift affected by weathering, human coastal development, storms and the passage of time. This line of feathers fluttering in the breeze, vulnerably dwarfed by the length of beach and nervously just out of reach of the enormity of the ocean, compels viewers to anthropomorphically see the feathers embedded in the sand as themselves standing so small against the forces of nature and the passage of time.
Kath Fries, artwork statement 2011
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200, long |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, (detail) |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long (detail view of section where the tide washed over the work) |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long, (early morning) |
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| Kath Fries, Swash, 2011, rope, feathers and high-tide mark, 200m long, (sunrise) |
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