KELPWIND INSTRUMENT FOR A SLACK TIDE SONG

Photograph, driftwood, senescent bull kelp

Occultus Exhibition The Vestibule 2026

This assemblage memorializes a senescent bull kelp sculpture used in a performance at slack tide.

Bull kelp broke loose

Bull kelp broke loose

Bull kelp broke loose

From a forest undersea

Carried by currents

Carried by currents

Carried by currents

Ebb tide rest

Found and fashioned

Slack tide song

Sound and motion

Flood tide comes

Under the sun on an erratic

Under the sun on an erratic

Under the sun on an erratic

15,000 years young

Dried and crystallized

Dried and crystallized

Dried and crystallized