I’m moving to the reef (and other oceanic ways of forming radical relationships)

Installed as a constellation across the exhibition, this hand-carved ceramic series inhabits a fragile space of ecological change–hovering between a bleached and living reef. The works lay suspended in an immersive two-toned wall painting that evokes the horizon of a fog-laden seascape, where sea and sky blur in an almost imperceptible, liminal drift. For full press-release and more information, please see gallery Hesse-Flatow

hand-carved and glazed ceramic tiles over a concrete form of a domed house, with blue tear-drop shaped tiles to represent water. The dome is one of a few houses in the Cape Romano architectural complex build in the 19800’s that is now completely submerged off the coast of Florida due to climate change and rising sea levels.

hand-carved and glazed ceramic tiles over a concrete form Ctenophora, otherwise known as the comb jellyfish. The comb jelly lacks what most humans believe to have consciousness or complexity, however, in way that philosopher Thomas Nagel’s asks in his paper, “What is it like to be a bat?,” in what ways do our anthropocentric thinking shift the nature around us?

hand-carved and glazed ceramic tiles over a concrete form of a shell, inspired by an anomura, or colloquially known as a hermit crab. Gathering ways and inspiration from these creatures, who make and shift homes wherever they are, shifting with their growth.

This hand carved wall ceramic is done in the Japanese method of Kintsugi, as a metaphor for ecosystem conservation and reef resilience. Using the same materials of marine epoxy used by coral scientists to repair reefs by a method of outplanting, this work reflects current coral restorations efforts.