Chris Welsby "Estuary"

'[Estuary is] a one-hour film made from a boat during three weeks of incredibly varied and unpredictable weather during the winter of 1979. The movie is itself a fragment of an installation containing 21 static works, which will extend its context and meaning far beyond the language of film. The film is no more or less important than any other means employed to represent 'information about a river estuary. Each form of representation is chosen because it is best suited to the type of information carried. The installation is intended to function as a 'model' for a hypothetical 'reality'; this very particular does not belong to me alone, nor is it an illusion of a reality I have experienced in the past. The reality is 'hypothetical' precisely because it is a non-definable entity generated by the unique disposition of the viewer. Actuality lies beyond representation and beyond the language of art itself.’ (Chris Welsby, invitation De Appel, November 1980.)