​Odyssey: Explorations - the digital installation at Tate Liverpool       www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfg1W8DWGg&t=8s

TILTBRUSH SKETCHES          June - August 2019

Vessel no 1 - Garden Ship 

Vessel no 1 - Garden Ship (close up)

                              Vessel no 11 - the Astronaut                                                              Vessel no 5 - The Passenger                             

                                       Vessel no 3 - Cube                                                                          Vessel no 2 - Fireships

"We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother
​We carry soil in small bags: may home never fade in our hearts
We carry names, stories, memories of our villages, fields, boats
We carry scars from proxy wars of greed"
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“THINGS WE CARRY ON THE SEA” BY WANG PING

As I make these sketches of imagined vessels, entering into a virtual reality environment, using a new technology, I can't help but think of the future of our migrations as human beings, our experience of transformation and our capacity to adapt and change. When I make work in VR it is really not much different from making work in my studio, experimenting with new materials, allowing my imagination a free rein and being utterly absorbed in the concept, the emotion and the physical creation.

The recent terrible tragedy of 39 migrants found dead in a container truck in Essex is testament to the desperation felt by people in difficult circumstances, and the responsibility of us all to  understand their dilemma - to stop this from happening again