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Wood relief, enamel, industrial paint 2012

Based on The story of the SS Thistlegorm. This vessel was a British armed Merchant Navy ship. it in the Red Sea in 1941. The ship wreck had slowly turned into a marine ecosystem, while still containing a large part of its cargo, including motorcycles, boots and rifles. The wreck is rapidly disintegrating due to natural rusting. Along the years, the organisms the accumulated in its surroundings, and transformed it to a faux coral reef. The meeting point between this man made commodity and memory capsule, to the organic life force surrounding it, slowly turning it into a part of the marine ecosystem.