Flotant
Metal, sugarcane, disposable plastic waste, soil, living plants, iron oak gall ink, ink made from sheetrock
76” x 48” x 34”
2020
This sculptural drawing is a living ecosystem that explores what the future of this landscape might look like if we don’t change course. The paper, made from sugarcane and plastic, is shaped over a welded structure embedded into a planter also made from sugarcane and plastic. Pipelines that alternate between metal and paper weave into fantastical configurations in and out of the planter form, and living plants grow around and over these structures, referencing how enmeshed this oil infrastructure is with our landscape and how complicated but necessary the issue of divestment and shifting to other forms of energy is. As Southern Louisiana sinks and sea-levels rise, this sculpture imagines what our entangled biomes might look like down the line if the status quo goes unchanged.
