The Dry Sea
Language: English
200mm x 141mm
62 pages
Silkscreen & Digital printing
Eindhoven, 2023
Graduation thesis, Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, June 2023.
The Dry Sea is an editorial project which explores the recent history of ocean exploration and representation in the Global North from the Long Sixteenth century into Post-modernity. Starting from the mapping impulse embedded in Dutch Golden Age seascape paintings, the publication explores the ideologies and political frameworks which have influenced hegemonic artistic representations of the ocean, becoming projections of how European powers regarded maritime space in the past centuries.
The ocean is a heavily mediated space which can be challenging and in some cases impossible to access through direct sensorial experience. The mediation which determines our collective understanding of this space - spanning from imaginary frameworks to datasets - has been influenced and at times leveraged in favour of perpetuating land-based extractivist interests, colonialism and militarisation.
Digital copy available for free upon request
200mm x 141mm
62 pages
Silkscreen & Digital printing
Eindhoven, 2023
Graduation thesis, Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, June 2023.
The Dry Sea is an editorial project which explores the recent history of ocean exploration and representation in the Global North from the Long Sixteenth century into Post-modernity. Starting from the mapping impulse embedded in Dutch Golden Age seascape paintings, the publication explores the ideologies and political frameworks which have influenced hegemonic artistic representations of the ocean, becoming projections of how European powers regarded maritime space in the past centuries.
The ocean is a heavily mediated space which can be challenging and in some cases impossible to access through direct sensorial experience. The mediation which determines our collective understanding of this space - spanning from imaginary frameworks to datasets - has been influenced and at times leveraged in favour of perpetuating land-based extractivist interests, colonialism and militarisation.
Digital copy available for free upon request
