I have two pieces - one in the main gallery and one in the black light gallery. here is a bit more about each one...
Poison Patch
Materials: Hand felted fish, knitted plastic shopping bags, wood tray and hand-dyed simulated roe
Inspiration: The plastic of the great pacific garbage patch is slowly killing our oceans. Many fish are trapped beneath the patch and although they continue to spawn, their roe dye from lack of nutrients. There is no hidden story here.
This is an interactive piece. Over the duration of the show, the simulated roe will dry up to further the point of life erosion.
Atlas Shrugs
Materials: hand-felted wool globe, plastic army men.
Inspiration:
Recent news of North Korea and other nations building and or/rebuilding
weapons stores and continued military presence around the world had me thinking
of a world with no army men. Could
we survive? Do we stand on their
shoulders or do we dye from their
wounds?
Pictures will follow after the show opens...