DOOM SHIPS   In the 1840's the famine caused a mass exidous from the isle of Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the plight and  of the famine and the tyranny of the British government whom caused the famine by refusing access to the food that was in the country. They fled by the only means they had, the sea..   I tried to combine and merge the idea of the sea, the ship and the misery of the journey out ancestors endured to provide a better future for their children and their children's children. On the first ship I tried to encapsulate the ship on the sea and the sea on the ship, for the sea is as much a part of all the projects as the journey its self.     "water, water every where and all the boards did shrink, water,water every where nor any drop to drink,"

S.T Coldridge

Ryme of the Aincent Mariner

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