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In These Tides Hide Times and Lost Lives, David Alexander Flinn employs symbolism and metaphor to explore a number of complex themes. Embodying part of a shipwreck, a 15-foot mast, installed as if washed ashore on a desert island, refers to lost nostalgic notions of pride and desperation. |
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“Embodying part of a shipwreck, a 15-foot mast, installed as if washed ashore on a desert island…”
envoy enterprises Presents David Alexander Flinn
Jimi Dams
In These Tides Hide Times and Lost Lives, David Alexander Flinn employs symbolism and metaphor to explore a number of complex themes. Embodying part of a shipwreck, a 15-foot mast, installed as if washed ashore on a desert island, refers to lost nostalgic notions of pride and desperation.
Throughout the work, concepts of religion, ignorance and dependency are examined as the artist speculates upon our beliefs and our place in the universe.
*** envoy enterprises is located at 131 Chrystie Street, Ground Floor New York, NY, 10002. The exhibit “David Alexander Flinn: These Tides Hide Times and Lost Lives” is on view October 20th – November 13th, 2011
***This article was published by NY Arts Magazine, 2011. Sponsored in part by Broadway Gallery, NYC.
