DELUGE/SIONS, 2024, Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin, t-shirts & pillows, size variable

Disembodied torsos represent the rising tide of those uprooted by environmental disasters and forced to seek precarious refuge in unfamiliar lands. They evoke sandbags that create a barrier with the exterior to illustrate the futile attempts both to hold back rising water and to wall out migrants.