Sandbox

Here today, gone tomorrow...

Collaborating with Sand In Your Eye, a Yorkshire based sand and ice sculpting team, Sandbox demonstrates the fragile states of our City against the flooding.

A permanent exhibit, until it is washed away, will serve as a powerful reminder of the strength and speed of flooding in the City of York.

Touch, feel, leave your mark on this exhibit and post your result to Social Media. After a few months, this exhibit will no longer stand here and will have been washed away by the annual floods.

In York, flooding has become a background phenomenon; something that we’re accustomed to and something that’s become almost a yearly event similar to Halloween.

People will ask if you’ve seen the height of the river, or that The King’s Arms is underwater again.

Looking back at Pinsky’s description of the Pollution Pods and his reasoning behind the exhibit, it was to wake people up from the world they live in; to “disrupt our embodied experience” of life.

The intention of this exhibit is just that: To disrupt our embodied experience of flooding. It will also highlight both the local and global impacts of Climate Change, in a way which will allow visitors to fully experience the immense, predicted changes to our world.

We, as humans, have a tendency to habituate to our ever changing world, and lack the ability to clearly make sense of the sheer amount of data and daily negative news regarding this issue.