I Wouldn’t Be Alive was a site-specific installation at Artisan. Inspired by both tranquility and fear and deriving heavily from an episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive, a television series which reenacts exciting tales of human survival, as well as my own personal fear of the ocean. I reconstructed a very specific scene that was a vision of beauty and agony. A man who was lost at sea encountered a swarm of jellyfish, a beautiful sight, so still and vibrantly glowing beneath the water. Their translucent shapes moving with the current, until the current pulled this man into the swarm and he was stung repeatedly. It seemed almost bittersweet. By installing into a small gallery space and creating an immersive installation there are feelings of stillness, wonderment and claustrophobia all at once. It’s a visual and sensory experience that is overwhelming and engaging at the same time. From one reenactment another is created, and so the audience becomes a part of the reenactment and the cycle continues.