Staten Island's western shore: rusting hulls of tugs and ferries settled in the marsh grass, a kayak route through them, herons on the wrecks, the works on the wheelhouses.
The Arthur Kill is the tidal strait between Staten Island and New Jersey. A marine scrap yard in Rossville took in decommissioned tugboats, ferries and barges for decades, and many were left to settle in the marsh instead of being broken up. The rusting hulls are visible from the shore and from the water, and kayakers and photographers visit them.
Source · Wikipedia, Staten Island boat graveyard ↗
Dozens of scuttled tugboats, barges and a ferry sunk to their decks in the tidal marsh, rust and peeling paint, cordgrass and mud at low tide, the New Jersey refineries and cranes across the water, fog. Mood: fog on the kill. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.