Bringing In the Tide is an outdoor art exhibition in the Northern Wadden Sea in Jutland, Denmark, which is the world’s largest contiguous tidal flat area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’m one of the participating artists, collaborating with Carlo Sass Sørensen, Coastal Engineer at the Danish Coastal Authority and the Technical University of Denmark, on a piece opening today.
Drawing on scientific data Carlo has gathered through the Copernicus Sentinel 1 satellite and ground-based reflector monitoring of coastal dynamics, I have created the myth Legacy – A Fairytale for the Future, along with a ritual where amber rings are stacked up each year, with each ring representing that year’s rise in sea level.
A visual demonstration of the project can be found here: https://ourlegacy.earth/
At the ground-based reflectors in the Wadden Sea, a QR code leads to the story and explains how we intend to use and communicate the information.
