Short Projects
A Sense of Water: A Fiber Art Installation
This fiber art project was part of the Ocean Virtual Art Residency, an international program that has been endorsed as an Ocean Decade activity for the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Entitled A Sense of Water, this project was made with many yards of lightweight silky fabric that hang from above. The fabric covered with ocean-related designed and embellished with metallic paint and glitter. It is sensitive to movement in the gallery space and moves in response to the changing air currents caused by human activity. So too, does human activity impact the ocean itself.
A Sense of Water is a prototype for an immersive installation that viewers will be able to walk through. My goal in creating this installation is to bring attention to just one of the many ways we need our oceans, and to show how human actions impact the ocean. The works consider how our oceans help us remove some of the excess carbon we humans contribute to our atmosphere—and the environmental cost of that process.
The Poetry of Water
A short animation reflecting on the poetry of the earth's water. It was made in collaboration with and support of the Buzzards Bay Coalition, a Massachusetts-based environmental organization, It premiered in their education space, 114 Front Street, New Bedford Massachusetts.
WASHED AWAY
“Washed Away” is a simple hand-drawn video, made from two sheets of paper, a stick of charcoal, an eraser, and a hand-held cell-phone. The work intertwines the many meanings of water — especially its life giving and life-taking qualities.
We are water-based creatures. Most of our human body is water. Most of our planet's surface is covered water. Water is essential to our very existence. We develop into human form protected by the water in our mother's womb. Water is used in our cleansing rituals and sacred ceremonies.
And yet water also has the power to destroy out lives, and to wipe out villages and entire cities.
The simple animation notes the small fragility of human life in comparison to the vast eternal power of water.
We live for a moment, and then are gone.