I’ve been so busy lately sharing updates and events at the studio plus the work of other artists, that my own work has been slightly back burnered. Which is not to say that I haven’t been making work, I just haven’t been sharing as much as in the past. So to bring you back into the fold of my own work, here’s the latest work to leave the studio.
Water Columns | Ceramic, Steel, Cable | 80,000 mxn/4600usd each
Water Columns are an expansion of the Bone Series which explores the unseen world of plankton. My interest in planktons began with microscopic images of radiolarians (single cell zooplankton) that have intricate and beautiful skeletal structures. In doing more research about them, I discovered just how important they are for the health of the planet.
Plankton are the base of the aquatic food web, they provide half of the planet’s oxygen and they absorb carbon out of the atmosphere, trapping it in the deep oceans when they die. I finds inspiration in the fact that even though they are too small to be seen with the naked eye, a bloom of plankton can be so large that it can be seen from space. In light of our changing climate, sharing the importance of these tiny and beautiful water based creatures seems vital to understanding how we are all connected.
