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Nate Page’s Horizon Dock is a site-specific artwork created for Cañon Street Pocket Park in Point Loma. The artwork takes the form of a sculptural boat dock, which offers visual experiences inspired by the history of the Portuguese community in the neighborhood where it is sited, specifically, the community’s relationship to the sea and shipping culture.
The surface of Horizon Dock incorporates imagery inspired by traditional Portuguese Azulejos tiles, depicting land and sea vignettes and an elegant color fade which alludes to the horizon, allowing viewers to symbolically look out to sea. The artwork was informed by locals’ stories of fishermen’s families who would wait on the shore, peering out on the horizon to catch a first glimpse of the ships returning home from sea, and the palpable excitement that could be felt, especially from children waiting for their fathers.
Combining this long-distance viewing experience with the historical style of Azulejos tiles, Horizon Dock serves as a metaphor for connecting with a past, community collectivity and a desire to extend over the land and sea threshold by reconfiguring these valued phenomena and local stories into a daily experiential sculpture that brings the distance of land and sea directly to one’s feet.