Medium Printed photograph on gloss paper, synthetic wax, oil paint, synthetic turpentine, gilded frame, picture chain, heat gun
Dimensions Frame 600mm x 800mm x 60mm, Wax after interaction variable
The work begins as an image of a cruise ship on the Grande Canal in Venice, covered in globular layers of black wax.
Viewers are invited, sometimes by an attendant or through instinct, to take a heat gun located nearby and start to melt the waxy layers.
As the wax is melted the smell of the wax and artificial turpentine fill the air with a noxious scent of chemical pollution, the wax then drips down to reveal the name emblazoned on the ships side.
The ships name, of course, 'Scourge of the Seas' in reference to how Royal Caribbean name their ships. The wax cascades onto the wall and floor of the gallery. Alluding to the effect of these ships.
