Ali Hutchinson sky in the union jack / protection / caretaker / lighthouse / styx / Port de Grave / exoskeleton / hope + resolute / d'Espoir / residence / strains / rime / about

	Salthouse Dock / sky in the union jack

sky in the union jack / Salthouse Dock Performance, ritual, sculpture

	Flag repurposed from the blue in a discarded union jack umbrella. Backlit against the sky, tape reconfigures the union jack into a new country created by action and light. Nailed to sections of wood for portability the flag is flown at dusk signalling hope, defiance and a new territory. The broken umbrella repurposed to become a thing of flight and movement, charged and activated by the elements, signals possibility for metamorphosis and change. Both materially and psychically useful objects, an icon of protection and defence becomes one of flight, communication and territory. Referencing maritime signalling language, an arcane code of flag signals between ships at sea, requiring a key to decipher, signalling passing ships unseen in an oncoming storm, I create a signal language without a key, a broken form of communication for a parallel world. /