To Strive to Seek to Find and not to Yield

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield, cotton rope, felt, wood, clay, wax, duck cloth, suitcase, antique wooden pulleys, and metronome, 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA, 2010

The first chapter out of five in the Shackleton series, shown at the 1708 Gallery (Richmond, VA). Inspired by Sir Ernest Shackleton’s autobiography South, about his famed Imperial TransAtlantic Expedition in 1914, at the start of WW2, which  tried unsuccessfully to traverse Antarctica.

(The It Is Never Tomorrow photograph series is shown on the gallery walls.)