‘The Tigris’
by Theresa Caruana
Mixed Media Collage 2009
Artists’s website: www.riversbaghdad.com
About the artist:
Theresa Caruana is a US citizen of Latin American Ethnicity (Puerto
Rico). In her work she explores the harmonies and tensions between the
growth of civilization and the natural world. She utilises a range of
media from sculpture and collage to live performance and interactive
digital media. Now living and working in Nottingham, England, she is
currently a visiting research fellow at the Mixed Reality Laboratory at
the School of Computer Sciences, University of Nottingham.
About this work:
Reminiscent of Gilgamesh’s mythical invention of the sail, a reed boat
built in Iraq using 5000 year old techniques takes the anthropologist
Thor Heyerdahl on a journey of cultural exploration. An image of the
Tigris delta as seen from space forms the background. ‘The ancient quest
for knowledge lives on,’ says the artist, ‘shaping our future as well as
expanding our understanding of human histories.’
