Rising Tide

Georgie Friedman, Rising Tide, installation view (detail), City Hall, Boston, MA, 2017

On view during HUBweek: Immersion, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA, Oct 12-15, 2017

WATCH: Rising Tide, video documentation, 1:10 min, 2017

VIEW: Rising Tide, video stills

PUBLICATION: Art for Everyone (Art Textbook), 2022, Paperback 384 pgs. (p. 210-211)

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In Rising Tide, water from the Antarctic Sound digitally rises above Antarctica's icy mountains.

There are three sections, each with a different landscape that has less snowpack then its precedent. In each section, the water slowly rises over the course of ten minutes: turning valleys into bays, mountains into islands, and the Antarctic Sound into open ocean.

By projecting the "rising waters" of Antarctica, onto Boston's City Hall, I wanted to link the city's history, present moment, and future, with the bigger picture.

Footage filmed in Antarctica (January 2017).

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