The Buoy
Year
1998
Medium
Stainless steel, brass, aluminum, rubber, & foam
The Buoy
This Embassy represents written borders where borders cannot be written. As a symbol marking territory in the water, this Embassy represents the fallacy of property and its identification. It is a symbol or beacon for territorial demarcation in water that identifies property and signals a path where there is no land.
As such it is an envoy with a message that floats, eternally regenerating the same message at the expense of its own individual identity. Five Buoys chained together form a concert of light and music reminiscent of the call of sirens in ancient maritime myths.