1.0Rollins Museum of Arthttps://blogs.rollins.edu/rmaDr. Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director, Rollins Museum of Arthttps://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/author/ena-heller/Work of the Week: Catherine Yass, "Lighthouse (North north west, distant)"rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="l627fEk7Ig"><a href="https://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/2022/05/02/catherine-yass-lighthouse/">Work of the Week: Catherine Yass, “Lighthouse (North north west, distant)”</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/2022/05/02/catherine-yass-lighthouse/embed/#?secret=l627fEk7Ig" width="600" height="338" title="“Work of the Week: Catherine Yass, “Lighthouse (North north west, distant)”” — Rollins Museum of Art" data-secret="l627fEk7Ig" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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http://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/yass-catherine-lighthouse.jpeg557700The nuanced blue of the ocean, whitecaps and flickering reflections mixed into darker colors, occupies the lower quarter of the composition. Above, the water gives way to an intensely blue sky pierced only by a black sun. Against this expanse of sky – whose emptiness may be the very subject of the work – we see a silhouette rising from the ocean. We distinguish a rectangular building on a large platform supported by a very tall and seemingly too small single pillar. The structure, difficult to identify at first, is the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse off the coast of East Sussex, England. It is a decidedly unusual lighthouse, fully automated since the 1990s and thus appearing abandoned, isolated in the middle of the ocean.