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Bimini Big John's Bar & Grill
How to create Art?
The commission for the work was the visual aspect and a mural for the Big John Launch-Bar, located on the Island of Bimini.
Creating an original artistic proposal and keeping in mind the data analysis offered by the Internet are not completely incompatible subjects.
The first step to carry out this commission was to analyze the latent stories in the area where the work would be inserted. This analysis showed the supporting points of the content, technical and conceptual of the work.
The Context
Bimini is an island belonging to the Bahamas archipelago characterized by its shallows. So it was used by pirates to hide and disappear.
The initial settlers of the Island, the Lucayos Indians, were exterminated after contact with the first Spanish. The Island was visited by Ponce de Leon on his way to Florida in 1513.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Island was a refuge for pirates who stalked the Spanish Fleet that used the Gulf Stream to reach Spain. This Current passes in front of the Island. And it was very likely that burials of loot and even pirates killed in the skirmishes that occurred between Flora and the pirates would be found.
The shallows and inclement weather made this group of Islands a cemetery for the ships of the Spanish fleet through which many treasure seekers made a living rescuing treasures from ships that were shipwrecked on the reefs surrounding Bimini to the point of which the five founding families of Bimini had wreckers licenses around 1834. Most of the current settlers of Bimini are descendants of slaves freed after the British emancipation of the slaves in the Bahamas. These slaves settled on the Caribbean Islands and began to dedicate themselves to finding shipwrecks and artisanal fishing, through which an entire mythology began to be generated around the sea and its dangers. That mythology is used as a source of conceptual support since part of the sea monsters present in the mural are extracted from conversations with current residents.
The Island has always been a space halfway between two points that hosted cotton merchants during the civil war.
The Methodology.
To reach the turning point of the proposals, we took the data of the main topics shared on Facebook (using available data). We then analyzed Google searches for topics related to history by people from outside the Island but carried out geolocated on the Island, that is, the people were not from there but they were there from the searches on social networks. All of this yielded three big ideas:
1-Interest in local history focused on piracy.
2- The desire for discovery (the interest in discovering something is always attractive)
3-The interest in achieving experiences worthy of being shared socially.
The Work
All this context was used within the work to build a large travel map in which the (hypothetical) pirate burials were marked, guarded by a series of infernal creatures, a product of the collective imagination in the case of the mural. The rest of the environment was treated with more than 40 traditional knots in the tradition of the ancient sailors.
All this context was used within the work to build a large travel map in which the (hypothetical) pirate burials were marked, guarded by a series of infernal creatures, a product of the collective imagination in the case of the mural. The rest of the environment was treated with more than 40 traditional knots in the tradition of the ancient sailors.
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