‘Between Sand & Water; Sunken Lands' is a continuation of a photo project that seeks to highlight climate change and its effects on the coast of Ada. This is done by delving into the past and juxtaposing it with a representation of the present to show the realtime effects of climate change. It explores the relationship between the people, the sea and the land.
The exhibition space consists of two pieces; a shed with an art piece in a form of a canopy, then a display of landscape images and negative serigraph screen on a two set table forming the second piece.
The first piece features a shed fig 2. The concept of a shed is a representation of community, it is a communal space where fisherfolks sit under to mend their broken nets and engage in various interations such as regular redeposits of sand along canoe routes. The canopy locally known as abala of this shed is a selection of collaged serigraphs completed over the course of the residency. The prints are that of a recent aerial landscape of parts of Ada Foah to Azizakpe island fig 1. Justapoxed in the form of stitched prints of immemorial portraits that were taken in a community that no longer exists on the map.
The abala's legs were made from repurposed bamboo stems. This piece will continuously serve the community as a communal space, specifically for fisherfolk, beyond the exhibition.
The second is a selection of landscape images on a table set fig 2. Content selection for this display was made during the one face of the feasibility study during the residency. It was based on some causes of global warming within the community, its effects and the community's resistance to rebuilding. These two pieces are arranged such that they have a direct interaction with each other fig 3.
There also was a halftone study based on image resolution, contrast and tonal details. A hypothesis was established that the higher the resolution, the more rounded the halftone—the lower the resolution, the squarer the halftone due to the pixelation of the image.
