This installation of 98 mixed media works on paper highlights the unique evolutionary path of marine life forms and asks the viewer to consider the unbelievable diversity of underwater ecosystems. Octopuses, coral, squid and bottom-dwelling fish make visually compelling images because they display physical characteristics comparable to aspects of our conflicted human experience. In other words, under closer inspection, they seem more like us that we might think.
In this eclectic arrangement, there are references to eighteenth century “curiosity” collections like that of pharmaceutical scientist Albertus Seba. Ask you look at the installation consider whether or not future generations should experience these creatures only as “specimens” in natural history museums or whether we can summon the political will to preserve them in their natural environment.
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