Tristin Lowe: Mocha Dick September 26, 2011

Tristin Lowe's colossal sculpture 'Mocha Dick' is a fifty-two-feet-long recreation of the real-life albino sperm whale that terrorized early 19th-century whaling vessels near Mocha Island in the South Pacific. Mocha Dick, described in appearance as "white as wool," engaged in battle with numerous whaling expeditions and inspired Herman Melville's epic 'Moby Dick' (1851). Lowe worked with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia to make the sculpture: a large-scale vinyl inflatable understructure sheathed in white industrial felt.