NYAB Event - Mikael Kennedy “The Wine Dark Sea”

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At Melanie Flood Projects
Media: Photography

A new body of work from Mikael Kennedy’s 'The Odysseus' series entitled “The Wine Dark Sea.” The title of the series, “The Wine Dark Sea,” refers to the passage in Homer’s epic tale in which Odysseus sits by the shore, captive of the goddess Calypso, yearning to return to home to his family and lands. This is where the journey begins. The images represented in this series are American coastlines photographed between 2006 and 2009. As Kennedy explains, “The American frontier itself, once viewed as the wild west and the new world, is no longer viewed as uncharted territory or undiscovered land”. This collection revisits that perspective as the starting point of a journey, and of a longing to move. In the artist’s experience as a modern day cipher, the Odyssey becomes a journey through the vistas of America, a search for renewed vision of the land that carries both the excitement and isolation of exploration.

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