Pierre Fouche, His Foam White Arms Go Over and Round Me (Detail)

Pierre Fouche is an artist who has also trained in lace making. This is the technique used in the work shown. The 6.4 metre long lace scribes in morse code a fragment of poetry by novelist and explorer Crosbie Garstin, "The ballad of the Royal Ann", which tells the story of a sailor seduced by the sea. Drawn by the sea's wet lips and green hair, the sailor eventually gives in and drowns.