Piece description from the artist
From a series of paintings commissioned for the fictitious Nauticarum Societatis Occultae — a secret society that venerates ships, shipwrecks, and those lost at sea.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Year Lost: 1975
Nationality: American
purpose: transport
type: cargo
propulsion: steam turbine
date built: 1958
Weight (tons): 13632 grt
dimensions: 222,2 × 11,89 × 22,86 m
material: steel
engine: Westinghouse Electric Corp. Steam turbine
power: 7500 s.h.p.
speed: 14 knots
yard no.: 301
Builder: Great Lakes Engineering Works – GLEW, Michigan
Owner: Columbia Transportation Division – Oglebay Norton Co, Cleveland
captain: Ernest M. McSorley
no. of crew: 27
cause lost: gale/storm
other reasons: foundered
date lost: 10/11/1975 [dd/mm/yyyy]
Casualties: † 29 rank: 490
status: broken in two sections
depth: 162 max. / — min. (m)
orientation: 180°
location on seabed: turtle
visibility: very bad
current: strong
sea bed: rock(s)
Location: Lake Superior, Canada :Coordinates: 46°59.91 N 85°06.61 W
Owing to an interest in art history and contemporary culture, Shanon Playford is something of a painting chameleon. She allows her ideas (or subjects) to dictate the style and approach taken for each new series. Her work demonstrates an unstoppable curiosity for the “what if." Embracing inconsistency as her signature style, she identifies herself as a project/theme-oriented artist. Shanon works primarily in oil. She infuses her work with a keen knowledge of – and playful irreverence to – traditional skills and techniques.
Having decided she wanted to be an artist in kindergarten, she has been steadily painting & drawing ever since. Shanon graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997 and studied at the School of the Museum Fine Arts in Boston. She lives and paints in her native Portland, Oregon were she co-founded The Portland Art Open, a three day citywide event, whose goal is to make art fun, interesting, and accessible.
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