ABSTRACT
The sculptural object, Dug by the Devil explores cultural dichotomies beholden in the hydrospheric interior layers of Dean’s Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas. It chronicles the politics and programs of the blue hole’s relationship to public interiority through its investigation of spatial cultural collisions. The material, stone-fabric illusions, and fabrication processes record the site’s imprinted stories. The form investigates Material Identity, wherein dual intersecting, oppositional material narratives merge into a conjoined globally experienced existence. The Material Identity of this object metaphorically expresses varying cultural spatial sentiments of Bahamian folklore and adventurous freediving tourists of Dean’s Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas.
