Ocean

Ocean is part of an ongoing series from The Gravity of Play, exploring play as essential to our humanity and as a quiet act of resistance. At the ocean, figures play, carrying one another with ease, while slightly disinterested mermaids recline, a small irreverent refusal of expectation. The scene holds humour and leisure, but also carries weight, play as a strategy for autonomy, for connection beyond the demands of the everyday, and as a quiet refusal to behave.