ABSTRACT
Cold War legacies have long rendered the planetary ocean as an inner space counter to an extraterritorial outer space. Telescoping between the scales of climate change and weather, and between outer and inner space, the chapter explores the ways in which two Caribbean-born women artists render allegories of the Anthropocene in the wake of Black Atlantic crossings. I bring together the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Deborah Jack in relation to their differing visual allegories of oceanic embodiment. Focusing on their representations of embodied fluidity and flow, I connect these themes to the recent materialist turn to wet matter at a critical moment of sea-level rise.
