© the artist. Photo © Tacita Dean and Kjetil Berge

Teignmouth Electron 1999
Black and white photograph
136 x 101 cm
Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris

This photograph was taken from the window of the local island plane leaving Cayman Brac in the Caribbean, and shows Donald Crowhurst's abandoned trimaran. This image has a resonance for me beyond just the story of Crowhurst, in its echo of the death of the artist, Robert Smithson who often photographed his land art sculptures from the air, including the Spiral Jetty, and died documenting his Amarillo Ramp in an aeroplane accident in 1973.