Ghost Tide
Sculpture
The precursor that documented the threshold moment — the dolphin caught in the net that would later become the language of the transmutation.
Description
Ghost Tide is the work that named the typology. Made in 2022, it was the first piece to hold a marine body in the material that would later entangle it — the dolphin cast in cold-cast aluminium, caught in found ghost netting gathered from the Overberg coast.
Before Ghost Tide, the debris was observed. After Ghost Tide, the debris became a medium. This is the threshold moment: the first time the entanglement was not just documented but held in structure — the net becoming the form, the form becoming the record.
One of a kind. Placed in a private collection. Not for sale.
Specification
- Medium
- Cold-cast aluminium with found ghost netting
- Format
- Freestanding sculpture
- Year
- 2022
- Edition
- One of a kind
- Status
- Placed · Private collection · Not for sale
Provenance
- Artist
- Ché Hough (Cape Town)
- Studio
- Cape Cache, Pearly Beach, Western Cape
- Field research
- 139,500 nautical miles at sea
- Execution
- 2022 — Pearly Beach Studio
- Authentication
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by Cape Cache
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