It's been a bit of roller coaster since I started looking into the Grindadrap also known as the Grind in the Faroe Islands. The Grind has been practiced since the Viking times. 

Heads's mostly hacked half off, square flap cut into the belly like a door, a baby's laying dead next to the mother. A human child plays nearby among the family of dead dolphins. Whales but mostly dolphins are driven into bays with boats and slaughtered each hearing the cry's of it's family members as they die in turn. For anyone unaware this is something you might stumble across whilst on holiday in the Faroe Islands. The Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark but self-governing.

There are PCBs and mercury found in the body's of the dolphins/whales in the Faroe Islands, the Faroe Chief Medical Officer has recommend the intake for humans. We simply shouldn't be killing dolphins/whales what we should be doing is helping them survive the rubbish we are pouring into their home.

It was a natural process creating the first moquette on a piece of waste timber using resin glue as my water, everything was pretty much made out of old waste, with stats like more plastic than fish by 2050 the choice of landscape was fairly obvious.

I collected a bag of rubbish from a UK beach with hopes to make plinths/little islands for the miniature dead long finned pilot whales I had started to create.

One bag of rubbish collected from a beach became the foundation for two other projects "Toxic Pod" and "Brid Gulls and Chips" These objects are reenactments on a small scale. I've always had an interest in miniature war games customizing the solders/orcs is so much fun.

 I wanted the work to be approachable  I understand why some can't bare to look at images of the slaughter and hopefully I created something that can be held or put on a table and talked over. I donated the work to Sea Shepherd who have since taken them to the Cutty Sark to be exhibited at their 40th Anniversary gala. They hope to use them for education.





 

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