Rachel Berwick

Lonesome George
2005

Dimensions:  20’H X 45’W X 45’D
Materials: cast “volcanic” black glass, fans, video projections, fabric sails

Project Venues:                   
2005 Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2005 Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
 

“Lonesome George” is a mixed media installation inspired by a tortoise (named Lonesome George) from the Galapagos Island Abingdoni, who is the last of his kind. Through the use of video, cast glass elements, fans and sails, I reference the history of this subspecies from Darwin’s interest in the Galapagos tortoises at the nexus of evolutionary theory, to their current near-extinction.