The Wreck of the S.S. Feltria

240 x 360cm Hand-cut stencil, spray painted wall. This image of an anchor disassembling in zero gravity comes from an Admiralty type anchor, recovered from the World War One wreck of the Cunard ship S.S. Feltria that was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC 48 on the 5th May 1917. The anchor can be found by the key in Dungarvan while the wreck now lies 14 miles S.E. of Helvick Head. After taking a 3D scan of the object and simulating its disintegration digitally to use as a reference for illustration. D!VE was invited by the organisers of Waterford Walls to paint the piece as a stencil at their next annual event. After enlarging the illustration to dimensions fitting to the suggested wall, he separated the image into 12 segments to hand screen print and cut the stencil. On the day the piece was painted directly on the wall by spluttering 3 different shades of Montana 94 blues to achieve a patina effect replicating the current state of the original anchor.