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What Did the Deep Sea Say?

In the aftermath of catastrophic loss, a mother and her young son cross the Atlantic, taking refuge in a wooden house on a remote strip of land. Viewed from the shore, where land meets sea, the horizon is a line that holds their attention and draws them in. Camera in hand, she charts their progress and starts to imagine new ways of being and a new existence for her small family.

Writing with precision and clarity, Coutts combines the real with the fictional, thinking through art, poetry, geology, maps and Minecraft to present a devastating and fierce reflection on intimacy and separation, the visible and the invisible and the fragility and strangeness of the ocean and its borders.

About Marion Coutts

Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. She has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally and has held fellowships at Tate Liverpool and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. She was the recipient of The Islands Arts Writing Residency, Fogo Island and a Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Her first book, The Iceberg, won the Wellcome Book Prize. She is a Reader in Art at Goldsmiths and lives in London.
Details
  • Imprint: Fern Press
  • ISBN: 9781911717539
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Price: £18.99
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