White Hope
White Hope is a project developing the idea of mechanisms that allow the sea to draw. The project involves other concepts that relate to this idea. These concepts include:
'Liminal Agents' as written about and explained by Christer Westerdahl.
'Whiteness' as a signifier and poetic device written about in Moby Dick, 'The Whiteness of the Whale'.
The idea of passage, in particular at sea, its two dimensional pattern on the horizontal surface and how the time of passage may be represented by movement and therefore marks of movement.
Drifting, as in castaway or shipwrecked and the contrast in movements made by vessels without power and those under sail or other power. The major difference being that without power a vessel has no meaning. Its liminality was contrived to allow passage between two locations (mapped) without which the vessel become a buoy. In this sense the lack of power provides a truer liminality because the equilibrium that the displacement of the vessel finds is then at risk. With time a vessel without power will meet an undecided resolution; the progressive resolution would be to sink, although it may be that the vessel is beached or wrecked. In each of these scenarios the drifter was created on land for a purpose, midway through the void purpose was lost and therefore a liminal waiting period before the next and final sequence occurs. This passage may be developed using The Owl and The Pussycat and their peagreen boat.
Some information on the development and concept can be found at the Statens Værksteder for Kunst og Håndværk website in Danish. It is a lot more coherent than my version, which I think is helpful.
