BABETTE BEAULLIEU
Beach Installation
Sponsored By Walter Anderson Museum
Horn Island Camping Trip April 27-30, 2023
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Spring of 2023, Beaullieu created an installation on Horn Island during a four-day camping trip, organized and orchestrated by Walter Anderson Museum and with assistance from fellow campers. The process began immediately upon arrival with the gathering of beached objects and drift wood to be used to create a raft.
Beaullieu located a twenty- foot weathered tank marooned on the beach. The decision was made to build the raft on top of the four-foot-high barge. A raft-like structure was constructed from driftwood, bottles dangled on ropes, and found fabric became flags flown on the mast. In addition to the raft that was built, rope was gathered from the eight mile uninhabited beach. The rope was tied to the raft and lead to the water sixty feet away, teethering it to the Gulf water. On the last night on the island, candles was placed around the raft and the twenty campers processioned along the rope to the water’s edge, as an acknowldgment of our beautiful, disappearing island and the raft we symbolically named Unteethered.
