Water has the power to give life and take life away.

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This work is about the destruction of coral reefs and how tsunamis and rising ocean levels are changing our coastlines and landscapes.

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Materiality is significant. Tyvek is a material that people wear when cleaning up environmental disasters and the ocean is becoming full of plastics. Interestingly, I just learned that there is a fungus, found in Ecuador called Pestalotiopsis microspora, that eats plastic. This is a very promising discovery!

 

Here the materials are used to create interesting cellular, coral shapes, marrying the idea of body and landscape and life and death.