Artwork Description

Photograph on paper

Signed on the front.

Aerial photograph of the eroding edge of the lava field in Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. The pounding deep blue sea crashes against the wall of black lava.

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Archival pigment ink print. Matte or gloss paper on request. 1/500. Alternate sizes and prices available.

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Unframed (requires framing)

This artwork is unframed and requires framing.

#volcanic black lava blue sea waves power edge liquid against solid, #purple, #dark blue, #black

All art by Stuart Chape

These recent images in my ‘Rust Coast’ series were taken along a short section of coastline east of Honiara in the Solomon Islands. Along the shoreline ships and vehicles that reach the end of their usefulness are dumped.  In the 12 years that I have been visiting this location I have recorded the changing seascape as rusting hulks are stripped, some metal salvaged and then left to rust away, and new wrecks added. Local people with limited resources eke a living in their shadows. The compositions change but the elements of rusting waste and poverty have remained the same. A narrow band of an island surrounds  a turquoise coloured lagoon filled with complex coral reefs, surrounded in turn by  the deep blue sea. Larger islands lie in the distance, stretching to a horizon edged with monsoon clouds.Forested and grassy hills surround a deep blue bay with coral reefs and turquoise and deep blue sea. stretching to a distant horizon edged with monsoon clouds.
Forested islands surround a deep blue bay with isolated turquoise coloured coral reefs. Billowing monsson clouds fill the sky.
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