TIDE AND CURRENT TAXI: Sarah DeBoard
9.21.2012
During this time visitors are invited to join Marie and explore the coastline of Fire Island by boat, collecting debris that is found along the shore. In her Tide and Current Taxi project this year, Marie began collecting and mapping where man-made trash collects in the New York Harbor. The maps and prints that she makes from the collections tell an intimate story of our relationship to the land. With the Fire Island Float-able project she hopes to begin her collections on Fire Island, thinking of new ways to use and imagine the strange artifacts that are unearthed, a project that will further elaborated on next year.
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Sarah DeBoard looked a little suspicious when she first saw the raft that we were planning to take out into the ocean.
Especially when she found out how she was going to have to get on board.
“I’ll swim out past the breaking waves with the boat,” I told her,
Sarah made it to the boat without a hitch,
and before long we were drifting with the current along the shore of Fire Island.
Last year she sailed from England to Australia as crew aboard the racing yacht, Carina.
When she walked onto the Carina, she had never been aboard a sailboat in her life.
A year later she had crossed two oceans, visited the remote island chains of the Galapagos and Marquesas, and faired hapily in a 42 day open ocean stretch. (That is just to name a few of her nautical accomplishments.)