matter of time 2024

Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program group exhibition, hosted at Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY. 'matter of time' is produced with marine plastic debris, collected from the shores of the Outer Cape Cod region of Massachusetts during my 7-month-long Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The debris was cataloged, photographed, and later printed on irregularly shaped slabs of bisque-fired Pleistocene clay (18,000 BC, glacial deposition). 20,000 years ago, a continental ice sheet, 2 miles thick in places, picked up organic debris on its way and carried it as far south as the area known today as Cape Cod Bay. Pleistocene clay is among one of the deposits that the glacier carried and dropped as it melted over thousands of years. The average speed of a plastic bottle traveling in the ocean is estimated at around 1 kilometer per day. Depending on the oceanic currents and the size of the plastic object, it can reach several kilometers per day.