During my Works on Water residency, I explored the use of algae as a new material in my art practice. After researching emerging sustainable applications of algae, I experimented with it as a dynamic color component in light fixtures, as well as a pigment in paint and ink. Using algae milk paint that I created, I filled existing cracks in the walls of my WoW space, as if it was being reclaimed by elements of the sea.
Read MoreThis is how I remember it: From the park, you could see the sewage flowing out to the Hudson. The seagulls swooped all around the brown discharge. That’s the image: a cloud of gulls, rejoicing in our waste.
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New York is a city of nooks and crannies, discovered and undiscovered, above and below the waterline. Years of industry and years of the collapse of that industry have left much of the city ringed in relics: sunken piers, cement edifices, twisting metal. Recent times have seen much of the coastline reclaimed by municipal projects and developers, much more remains as it had been. And whatever the changes on the shore, it seems likely that the oil-slick surfaces of inlets like Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal will hold onto their mysteries for much, much longer. All of this is worth investigating, and worth documenting along the way.
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