When Alexis Rockman considers the world’s waterways, he sees them as a network — a transport system that has carried all facets of human history.
From language, culture, art, food, architecture and religion to the more nefarious — such as disease, warfare and pollution — each can be traced back to historic ships.
And, in some cases, notorious shipwrecks.
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When Karin Waisman contemplated the sentence, “The horizon is not a straight line,” two years ago, it held different meaning.
It referred to an open-ended future, an uncertain life full of twists and turns. In her own, that has included earning her architecture degree in her native Argentina and, in an effort to follow her passion, moving to the United States to study art at Cornell University — intending only to stay in New York for a few years.
That was almost three decades ago.
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Artists across the East End have reported mixed impacts on their creativity and productivity while sheltering in place — a concept that is foreign to some, but not much of a departure for many who are already accustomed to, and prefer, working in isolation.
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