othered exhibit, 2022
Read a review of the exhibit at Whitehot Magazine and see more about the exhibit at Howl.
“Manatee Skeleton,” 40″ x 120″ x 18″, welded steel, paper, gold credit cards, 2022
“Sea Turtle,” 20″ x 18″ x 6″, welded steel, paper, blue credit cards, 2022
Showing a dystopian landscape of extraction and resource depletion, in which fossil fuels, pipelines, and the control of water resources fight for attention. A life-sized Manatee skeleton built from gold credit cards is to the lower right and a sea turtle made with blue credit cards midway up the right wall .
These abstractions of planktonic forms are made from plastic debris and single use, non-recyclable trash collected over the years. The volume is approximately the dimensions of a whale’s stomach. Plankton is a biomass of microscopic life forms, animal and vegetable, which float passively in bodies of water, constituting the principal diet of marine life including whales, and is a major source of global oxygen.
The pangolin is the only mammal with scales and the most widely poached and trafficked creature on earth, the scales being valued for traditional medicine. Threatened with extinction, more than a million are said to have been illegally poached in their Asian and African habitats over the last ten years.