![]() Sailors would get tattoos to commemorate important events in their lives or important ideas. This concept worked well with the idea of tattooing as a sailor’s art form. So I turned to dyes and stains- something that would sink into the pier surface and color it, and then gradually become weathered and faded. In my mind paint is something that would eventually flake off and become pollution in the water. The whole area there is a study in the weathering of manmade items in harsh and changeable weather. Part of the mission of the HarborArts space, and its founder Steve Israel, is to promote awareness of marine ecology. I’d originally thought to paint, but reconsidered. The surface of the piers at Boston Shipyard are actually weathered cement. This project is an effort to document some of that connection. But really we grew as a city by being a port for worldwide trade, by traveling and having commerce around the world, and by the efforts, input, ingenuity, prosperity and suffering of many other nations and peoples. Our canonical view of Boston history seems to focus on a few white, Puritan & Revolutionary tales. Taking this walk out into the harbor, and thinking about where Boston is now, a city basically put on the map by the worldwide shipping trade, I can almost see the ships coming and going to places all over the world. Ships have been built and maintained on that spot for hundreds of years.īoston is full of palpable history. The project aims to take visitors on a walk down the main pier at HarborArts at the Boston Shipyard. A response to the place itself, where people are drawn to leave the land and walk out onto the pier - where they can experience the water all around them and view the Boston skyline in a unique and complete panorama.
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