Description
Thames (Fleet : All In The Same Boat), steel, 2023
Quarantine literally means forty days of isolation and was introduced into
contemporary language to articulate holding a vessel at port before the crew and
cargo could come ashore. This was to prevent the spread of highly infectious disease.
Three large scale origami boats folded in steel plate afloat. Samuel Zealey’s practice
has a recent history of folding ‘paper planes’ in steel plate at a monumental scale –
now this folding process has evolved from an aviation form into a marine form.
‘All In The Same Boat’ literally means in English – ‘we are all in this together’. This
particular English saying has become very relevant during Covid-19 because it is the
first time that every single person upon this planet has been affected in some way or
another by the same phenomena. Zealey has said – “I think it is important to
immortalise this pandemic visually with a monument. This piece is sensitive to the
idea of quarantine but also shows how incredibly versatile and unified humanity
actually is at a time that truly matters.