As part of the DRIFT exhibition in London which ran September - October, 2008, Margaret Evangeline was interviewed by the BBC about her installation Saved From Drowning- Monumental Reflective Project, on the River Thames directly across from the Tate Modern.
"I recalled the way JM Turner marshals forces of nature, especially water, as I selected a dramatic spot on the Thames near the place of the tragic sinking of a pleasure boat, the Marchioness, August 20, 1989, to construct a giant reflective surface of stainless steel that becomes the perpetually changing painting entitled Saved From Drowning," states Evangeline.
Saved From Drowning is a double-sided six-ton polished stainless steel structure whose two opposite sides are to be viewed randomly and intermittently. Fifteen feet high, thirty feet wide with a thickness of one foot the obverse and reverse sides are assembled from twelve polished stainless steel panels welded onto a steel chassis, a massive infrastructure stabilized by four braided stainless steel guide wires. This form is engineered to sit on top of a specially outfitted pontoon barge with maximum.
View Evangeline's interview on the BBC HERE.
Read more about DRIFT and Saved From Drowning HERE.
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