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Statement

«While I am aware of the world around me, of the effect of humans on the earth and the sea, I feel powerless to cause change despite my desire to see that change happen. I am confronted by the frivolous everyday challenges of humanity; finding love, loving my body and caring for myself. How can I find the energy to devote to both: myself and the environment?

As an artist, I can find some balance, to care for myself and for the environment, I can be a part of the change I wish to see.

My installation, Can’t stop thinking about love and my body, will be an image of my selfishness, of my anthropocentrism position. It will mark my switch to Biocentrism, where humans share value with the rest of the world, where the earth as a whole is more important than the individual.

I have chosen fish and plankton as symbols for life and the sea in my installation. On the ground, a vortex of clear water represents my comfort, my cocoon of safety as a white western woman. This clear water will be surround by a circle of defense, a fence between me, my body and all the rest: pollution, exploitation, and overfishing. Those defenses are built of plastic bottle shapes, it is my opinion that this object is a demonstration of our madness, the sale of clear water in petrol made container. It is also a reminder of the massive amount of plastic present in our ocean. On the other side of my fence, black oily water, and a school of fish without heads (fish ghosts).  In suspension just over my vortex, my ego portrait made of selfies on bubbles of glass. And out of my stomach comes net made of intestine, with nodes at the extremity, because at my point of view, the way we eat is the nodes of the consummation problem.

Overfishing is abundant, we are living in an anthropocentric society- humans are the middle of the universe. I feel hypocritical speaking about the devastation of the sea while I continue to eat fish and be a part of the problem. I struggle with the taste of fish in my mouth, can I care for the sea and still consume its inhabitants? Perhaps my solution is to become a fisher, to catch my own food and store them preciously in my freezer. Is this a solution? is this the balance I search for? We need them alive to take care of the sea.»