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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Josephine Turalba, Sea.mless Gambit, 2025

Josephine Turalba

Sea.mless Gambit, 2025
1000 spent bullets of calibers 45, 49, 38, 9mm, 22, 5.56, 308,shotgun shells, leather
132.08 x 204.47 cm
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Sea.mless Gambit suggests a strategic maneuver in maritime tensions—hinting at calculated trade-offs involving missiles, territorial disputes, or power plays at sea. It implies both a risky negotiation and a larger...
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Sea.mless Gambit suggests a strategic maneuver in maritime tensions—hinting at calculated trade-offs involving missiles, territorial disputes, or power plays at sea. It implies both a risky negotiation and a larger unfolding strategy.

A delicate dance of power unfolds at sea—missiles, borders, and silent negotiations. Cut-out leather bears the imprints of SpaceX, Tesla, Amazon, Meta, Boeing, and the Chinese Coast Guard, their logos adrift like corporate buoys in contested waters.

On a drifting ship, Russian nesting dolls sit in quiet succession, a puzzle within a puzzle. A Tesla robot stands among them—cold, expressionless—an emblem of engineered dominance. Nearby, Chinese Coast Guards unleash water cannons, their spray cutting through helpless fishermen and painted fishes by Bajo de Masinloc. Among them, a spy lurks in the shadows, as figures feast and exchange money—transactions woven into the tides.

Reimagined sea creatures morph with machinery, their forms haunted by industry. Phantom hands reach—grasping, seizing, surrendering. A game of strategy, a wager of oceans, where unseen forces shape the currents of power.
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