Welded steel, 21 x 24 x 13, 2002.
The hull is two bands of steel plate laid over one another and held with bolts. Viking hulls were built of overlapping planks fastened with iron rivets, and here the fasteners are visible and carry the look of the planks. A wrench stands on the deck beside a round disc. It’s the tool that tightens the bolts the hull is made of, its two forked jaws pointing up like the horns of a viking helmet.
Above the deck a row of thin vertical rods rises to a large flat steel plate with a round hole through its center. The plate is the sail. It’s the biggest surface in the piece and it hangs high over a low hull, held up by the rods the way rigging holds a sail. The hole reads as an emblem, a sun, or a moon. Below the ship, plates of varied thicknesses stand in for the sea.
