"The buoy project"

Abstract

The Buoy Project was an exhibition designed to communicate the experience of the artist‟s investigation and research which occurred in Hawaiʻi during the development of the project. The buoys in the project are made out of ceramics. Each buoy was installed and documented in the ocean around Oʻahu. Once removed from the ocean Video screens were installed into each buoy. The video screen in each buoy shows the documentation of that buoy in the ocean. This paper will discuss processes involved in each stage of the project which include: how the idea originated in the studio and expanded to research in the ocean, why the buoy was chosen as the vessel, construction, documentation, the exhibition itself, why this work is relevant and important to me, art theory related to the work, influences of other Land Art artists, and other ideas associated with the project.