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Appa, Have You Gone Fishing?
About:
Medium:
5.5 gallon fish tank, human hair, fishing bobbers, hair accessories, water, fishing nets, towel, pedestal

Date:
2024


Dimensions:
16.5 in x 10.75 in x 8.75 in (fish tank)
24 in x 32 in x 16 in (pedestal)

Description:

Appa, Have You Gone Fishing?, is an interactive installation that invites viewers to explore the intersection of memory, experience, and time. This installation features a fish tank filled with strands of hair of varying lengths, each representing a specific year in the artist’s life in the last 10 years, during which she has lived away from her father. While the fish tank serves as both a barrier and a preserving skin for the hair strands contained within, the artist’s hair physically embodies her experiences and memories and becomes the medium through which the artist explores themes of identity and time. The concept of fishing is inspired by the artist’s relationship with her father, who enjoyed fishing.


Participants are encouraged to engage with the installation using the nets provided to fish out strands of hair from the tank. As they examine each strand, they are invited to compare its length to a ruler provided, learning about key points of the artist’s life in each year”  
(TheBlanc, 11:59 Show).





This  sculpture has two parts:  1. the fish tank  2. pedestal. The artist collected her hair for three months, which is connected to the 10 bobbers. Each hair strand represents a year from the artist’s life between 2014-2024, one year equaling to one inch.  

On the pedestal is a timeline that the hair can be compared on. From 2014-2024, the artist has picked important details and events per year that the user can learn about. The artist hopes to be in a conversation with her father through this project, letting her father know of the various events that the artist had to go through as she navigated her collegiate years in NYC.  Some highlighted events are specifially events that the artist struggles to bring up to her father, as conversations about sexual uncomfortableness is not talked about in her family.

A close up image of the timeline  can be seen in the gallery above.