MINUTE OF MONTH NO. 31 SEPTEMBER 2022
Channel: Sarah Bay Gachot
Date: 2023-01-13

#minuteofmonth No. 31, September, 2022. Half this month was spent underwater (as much as possible), in Greece, and half was spent distinctly not underwater, in the United States, but generally seeking out water. I bought a 4 kg weight belt in Leonidio to be less buoyant, to look at fish, to look up at the liquid ceiling of sunlight and sky as far above as I could go down. We spent some days in Athens, then flew to New York. We visited museums and galleries. You’ll see a clip from a video by nibia pastrana santiago called Baliza (2019) from “Tropical is Political” at the Americas Society. The camera is upside down and the artist is in a pool moving with a banner that says “your island here” with the y x’d out. I watched her underwater choreography enviously. I also understand that swimming can go from nourishing to consumerism in the blink of a cruise ship. (Her art is anti-colonialist from the perspective of being based in Puerto Rico.) The Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at MoMA is really good. The way he hangs his work, all different sizes, all over the place, scotch taped to the wall, makes the separation between viewers and artwork a lesser thing. A night wander through the Met reminded me why I like New York. Again, many things were not video’d this month. The Eagles won Monday Night Football. I didn’t kill that spotted lanternfly. We took ferries around NYC, to Shelter Island, and then across the Long Island Sound on our way to Rhode Island. Speaking of, I’ve never seen so many cruise ships here. . . . Now it’s quiet. Trying to stay warm. Glancing at odd things on the TV, but mostly watching TCM, like this Marx Bros clip. Seeing some family, who introduced us to this last video called “Around Cape Horn” about a barque making the journey through a huge storm in 1929. Not this shot but another taken from high up on the rigging made me envious for the sea again — looking down at the stern and wake, likely going 16 knots or more, this massive thing, 8000 tons, sailing like that through water. Originally posted on: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjY5nthjHix/