Mare Plasticum 1

Stand in front of this work long enough and you will see yourself.

Your reflection appears inside the panel, surrounded by the plastic debris embedded in the resin. The mirror does not let you remain a spectator. You are in the water.

Two thirds of the surface are submerged in layered resin, starting with deep cobalt, descending into luminous turquoise, pale aquamarine, and dissolving toward the mirror below. The blues shift the way real water shifts: never one colour, never still.

Within these waves, fragments of domestic plastic waste are arranged in a Fibonacci Spiral:  the same infinite sequence found in nautilus shells, in coral, in the growth of every living thing the sea sustains. Here it maps something else: the infinite accumulation of what we discard without thinking.

The panel is large,  152 × 122 cm,  because the problem is large.

It demands that kind of presence. It demands yours.

Mixed media on mirror-effect metal panel

152.5 × 122 cm · 2023

One of a kind · Certificate of authenticity