While in Florence, Oregon this year, I had planned to do some site specific art. However, I have learned that a site which has as much emotional connection in a certain way to me as does Florence makes it very difficult to think of the site in any other way. Florence is a place of contemplative thought and mourning for me, making "art" difficult.
This was a performance/land piece I did while on the beach at Devil's Elbow. Appropriately named place, it can be a place of violent oceanic turbulence. This quality fit well the piece I did, measuring the tide with stones. I was measuring the movement of the tide by marking the end of the waves with stones over the period of a half and hour. The line shifted and blurred as the ocean refused to be measured. The video didn't turn out as well as I had hoped and poor Rebecca's shoes got soaked. I should have thought to get a tripod.
In this video documentation of the piece, you will see a condensed version of me running and marking the waves location. I particularly enjoyed the movement of the line of stones as the waves undulated. After seeing the video, I was astonished at the beauty of the sunset and the coastline reflecting the beauty in the sky.
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