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Fathom

Jeremy Wafer
Fathom, 2020
Rope and cast lead
Length of rope: 300 cm

Jeremy Wafer’s sculpture Fathom, 2021 is a thirty-meter length of rope upon which plugs of lead are cast in one-meter intervals. The work is a material reference to sounding lines that are used to measure the depth of water from boats.