Deluge
Created in collaboration with Christopher Curtin for The Netshed at Alderbrook Station, Astoria, OR, 2010.
Once the site of a thriving, albeit contested, salmon fishing industry, the Netshed - where fishermen would
repair their gillnets - is an historical structure that serves as an icon for the interplay of migration, economy,
ecology, dispossession and reclamation. Using hand-dyed cloth, the metaphor of water and reclaimed
gillnets – the material that originally necessitated the site – we sought to re-engage the building’s history as
a site of restoration and repair, creating a poetic context in which viewers might dream new possibilities for
dialogue and negotiation. Gillnets provided by the Columbia River Fisherman’s Protective Union’s gillnet
recycling project. Photo credit: www.donfrankphotography.com