some things last a long time 2022

Exhibited at Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

This two-part installation was exhibited at the end of my 7-month-long fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. Materials for this exhibition are geographically specific to the environment of Cape Cod. The spatial drawings are rendered directly on the gallery walls and floor using squid ink that I caught locally and processed in my studio. Initially, the drawings appear as projected shadows of both recognizable and unidentifiable objects and slowly transform into drawings. The shapes of the drawings are based on found marine plastic debris I collected from the shores of the Northern Atlantic. The second part of the exhibition, in the later images, shows the presentation of the plastic debris, which was laid out by two friends who had the liberty of arranging them based on a simple set of instructions.

Facilitated by the Marine Debris & Plastics Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, after the exhibition, the debris was redistributed to local fishermen and artists.