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The castaways project, Virginia Ryan, Steven Feld

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The castaways project

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Virginia Ryan, Steven Feld

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Virginia Ryan created over 1000 sculptural paintings, each 9.5 x 11.5 inches, from washed-up materials collected along local shorelines around Accra, Ghana. All the works are white-washed and flicked through with grey-gold, resonant with the colors of foam and sand as the waves break on the very shores from where the inhabitants were once taken and enslaved to build the new world. In 2006 she invited media artist Steven Feld to collaborate. Feld created an audio environment titled Anomabo shoreline, from ocean sounds at one of Ryan's collecting places, and an ambient video about the beach environment and Ryan's work to collect and transform the objects in her studio

Where water touches land : Anomabo Beach and Accra, Ghana / a film by Steven Feld -- Anomabo shoreline

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