- Hartman Avec Sade
2023
Antique copper lightning rod
11 x 16 in.
Hartman Avec Sade (2023) features a copper lightning rod recovered from the coastline of Bridgend County Borough (Porthcawl, United Kingdom). In the Summer of 2020, a cargo ship lost many of its containers in the Bristol Channel, the contents of which slowly began to wash ashore in October of that year.
The lightning rod presumably belonged to a parcel of antique goods or a personal collection and was likely shipped by sea due to the contingent embargo placed on shipment by air as the number of commercial flights decreased at the beginning of the pandemic.
The Bristol Channel is well known for once being an active port hub for slave ships in the late 1600's following the disintegration of the Royal African Company's monopoly over the trade. The cargo ship debris is not alone at the bed of the Bristol Channel. In 1994 a shipwreck was discovered by a team of archeologists and divers and identified as a slave ship from the mid-1600's. Some of the wreckage was recovered for the British Museum but much of it remains there, yet to wash ashore.
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