Shadow of the Salt Tide is the second work in the sculptural triptych The Art of Unbinding — the threat that looms above Andromeda, arched like a consuming mouth, frozen in time and unable to reach her.

 

The sculpture hangs above Andromeda Unbinding, its presence oppressive and visceral. Made entirely from strips of cotton encased in wax, it is ghostly white — a memory rather than a current threat, its danger sealed and contained. The wax preserves it in a moment of menace that can no longer cause harm.

 

Suspended from a rusty metal bar fixed to burned wood, each strand hangs heavy with embedded objects — silver and copper hooks like claws, fishing net, seed pods, black pearls and metal hoops. A single partially visible piece of writing is sewn into the surface — a bad memory, almost but not quite hidden.

 

The red thread that runs through the entire trilogy is present here too, tangled and knotted at the base — darker, more agitated than in the pieces below. This is the place where the threat lived. Where the damage was done.

 

But it is frozen. It cannot reach her anymore.