Sing, Calypso

Based on Atlantis, Full of Cheer (a series of found object window installation "Operas" staged locally over the last decade), Sing, Calypso is a fanciful storyboarding of the three worlds inhabited in the aforementioned work. A simple tale of a Fisherman who, saved from drowning by a magical Fish he had spared out of compassion, falls in love with the Princess of Atlantis. The reconciliation of the human world above the waves and the natural world below is cemented in the song the Fish sings. The double reference to Calypso as the daughter of the Greek titan Atlas, and Jacques Cousteau's oceanographic research vessel both point to the fact that the famous boat was in fact built in neighboring shipyards. –Artist statement