Carcass  

2022

Carcass is a hand built ceramic installation that approaches the theme of ocean degradation through the lenses of coral bleaching, coral harvesting and plastic pollution. Each sculpture is a thoughtful curation that shows endangered species from the Florida Reef Tract such as Elkhorn, Staghorn, Pillar and Brain corals amongst others that are suffering a mass extinction due to human stressors. These sculptures are surrounded by ceramic pieces of everyday trash elements that ends up in the ocean and laid on top of a sand bed. All sculptures are only fired once, making them more fragile and susceptible to breakage just like corals themselves. My goal is to create the feeling that corals emit by portraying the vast array of species, textures, and shapes that exist in a reef while also showing the effects of the phenomena that are devastating these extremely delicate beings.