Movement/Man/Data

Movement is a constant fascination for me. How man deals with movement. Animation as moving abstraction.

Our desire to move ourselves out of our known spaces or our determination to stay within our known and supposedly controlled environments. Both extremes fascinate me.

When I used to go sailing weather was key to movement. It determined when, if and how we moved. The relationship to my environment and everything around me was constantly on my mind and the minds of everyone on the boat. Days would be spent waiting in anchorage's for weather to change so that the trip could continue. Life was no longer controlled by the instant gratification of our desire to move.

Movement posed risk but so did staying still. For to stay still in the wrong place could be just as detrimental to our proposed goal, just as dangerous to our well being. It was a constant shifting of choices, when to stay, when to go, when to stop and where.

I would plot the next days passage nightly, usually trying to have at least three stopping points available and then still feel like I was ignorant when halfway along the passage the Captain would ask for alternative possibilities to our original plan. At those times I was scrambling for that knowledge through scrolled nautical charts or radioing the passing tow boat captains for their local opinion.

Nautical Bouy Data
Digital Navigational Chart System