A project that follows my research on the colors and history of the Atlantic Ocean. After the trip on the ship Isolda, i.e. after the project I Want to Travel on a Ship to Paint the Sea, I went to Iceland, to Skagastrond in the North, not far from Akureyri for two months and then to Stonington in Maine in October 2015. A 'friend advised me to go instead to Eastport much further north, but still in the state of Maine. Eastport is a municipality on the island called Moose Island, on the Atlantic coast of Northern Maine, on the border of the Canadian state of New Brunswick. Moose Island Iceland is located south of Canada's Bay of Fundy. Eastport is the easternmost city in the United States and for this reason the rising sun, the dawn is particularly spectacular. The color studies were painted on recycled material. First landscape with the title Islands on salt bags, artificial youta, then on Dacron nautical sails. The sails were then exhibited in the city of Eastport as street art. The sails are actually part of a larger project, a dance performance with choreographer Liz Gerring and musician Eve Beglarian. This project is called Working the Waters. It started with a workshop  produced by the local museum, The Tide Institute,. The Project is based on Liz Gerring's dance movements , related to my painted  sails to remind us of the power of nature; and to the original music by Eve Beglarian based on the sirens of the sardine factories that populated this part of the East Coast of the USA

Video by Jude Kempe of the project's first workshop with Liz Gerring and Eve Beglarian, 2022.
https://youtu.be/t4duMpsb65w?si=ErefoPwWhp_rrKzD