Kill Van Kull, the narrow strip of water between Staten Island and Jersey City, allowed me to spend day after day waiting for the 300 meter dented, pitted container ships that ceaselessly roam our waters. Up to 90% of our goods arrive on these behemoths yet we rarely see them. Airports and highways make up or transportation infrastructure. Some of us ride trains or have to occasionally wait for them to pass, but the ships care our oil, gas, shirts, sweaters, chairs, bananas, lighters, coffee, tvs and toothpaste.
The most ancient and efficient way to move goods of trade these unruly ships pollute our waters. Thirty years of climate talks yield nothing. Thirty years of trade talks increased global trade 5 times. Naomi Klein says the global warming is so overwhelming that we can’t look at it for long. We consider it and look away for its too much, what can we do?
HuLL uses the formal rules of shape, color and composition to create a work that perhaps we can consider for awhile. Nature and industry are balanced in an ever-moving stasis that doesn’t really exist, is but a moment in thought, a thought in pause.