WAYPOINT

2017
East Hampton, NY
Wood, steel, acrylic paint, and polyester resin
92” x 16” x 13”

ARTIST STATEMENT

Waypoint is navigational term. Used habitually by sailors and pilots in plotting a route, a waypoint is literally “a point along the way,” an interim destination to break up a longer journey. Buoys often serve as waypoints. A waypoint is both an end and a beginning, and is often an opportunity for reassessing, taking stock.

Roughly square in plan, this totemic assemblage of salvaged structural wood stands erect like a sentinel in the landscape. Its exterior faces, weathered and scored with intersecting lines, might suggest an old nautical chart. A continuous vertical gap along one side reveals a pristine cobalt blue interior. Facing south-west this gap allows sunlight to flood the interior, casting geometric shadows that continuously change as they track the movement of the sun.

G.M.B.