According to the legends, the waters of the triangle are notorious for making even the strongest vessels disappear, along with the crew abroad. The area has been in news for several decades for unexplained incidences of vanishing of ships. Such an infamous reputation for this oceanic area has been not gained contemporarily but exists for decades and even centuries if some records are to be believed.
The area has also been called the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, denoting its position that is precisely opposite to the Bermuda Triangle and the similarities in the “paranormal phenomena” of the area with that of the Bermuda Triangle. Since the Devil’s Sea is not officially included in the map, the actual size and the perimeter of the notorious waters remain unknown. Some reports state that it is 110 km far from Japan’s east coast region, while another claims that it is located near Iwo Jima, a Japanese Volcano Island which is almost 1,200 km from the Japanese coast. However, the exact location of the Devil’s Sea is disputed since several reports claim different distances to the area. Geographically, the triangle is located around the Miyake, which is a Japanese island that lies around a hundred kilometres south of Tokyo. As the title indicates, the Dragon’s Triangle extends as a triangle between Japan and the Islands of Bonin, including a major portion of the Philippine Sea. Vile vortices are those areas where the pull of the planet’s electromagnetic waves is stronger than anywhere else. Located near the Japanese coast in the Pacific Ocean, the Devil’s Sea (Ma-no Umi in Japanese) is one of the twelve Vile Vortices located around the earth. The Devil’s Sea, also known as the Dragon’s Triangle, is one of such sailors’ nightmares in the waters around the world. Though the notorious Bermuda triangle tops the list of most mysterious places on this planet, a number of other locations also remain mysterious as much as the former. The legends of missing vessels and ghost ships drifting without their crew in these locations have made their synonyms to the mystery. A mixed media piece consisting of multiple projections, the work hints at these geographic anomalies and seeks to place viewers literally inside one of these twelve vortices.There are tons of mysterious places around the world both on land and in the water – that are difficult to explain logically. Together they form the vertices of an icosahedron.
The vortices are distributed equidistant around the globe with five located on a latitude near the Tropic of Capricorn, five near the Tropic of Cancer, and one each at either of the Poles. Believed to be sites plagued by magnetic anomalies and other unexplained phenomena, the 12 vile vortices roughly correlate to the shape of triangles (the most famous being the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon’s Triangle (Devil’s Sea)). Sanderson in his 1972 article “The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World”, this recent work documents an imagined rift in the landscape where time and space fold in upon themselves. Inspired by the 12 vile vortices as coined by Ivan T. Mixed media installation īest Canadian Work Jury Prize at the WNDX FesTival of Moving Image in Winnipeg, Manitoba (was titled ‘fog vortex’ for the Images Festival 2013)
The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World