The Boy Who watches ships go by.

'The Boy Who Watches Ships Go By', 2002 (selected images)

A series of photographic canvasses describes the shifting landscapes and histories of a quiet coastal village. The viewer enters in to a world of imagination, memory and narrative created by images of land and sea. Sunderland Point, through it’s involvement in slave trading in the Americas and the Caribbean, became one of the busiest ports in northern England in the eighteenth century. Today the quiet coastal village of Sunderland Point is the site of 'Sambos' grave, buried in 1739. According to one of the local traditions a sea captain returning from the Carribean bought him as a boy to the village.

http://whitworthadultprogramme.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/reflecting-on-last-weeks-raw-social-with-ingrid-pollard/

Photographic emulsion on stretched canvas. 3 - 30x 12 inch & 7- 12x12 inches