SHOW ME THE WATER
As installed at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska.

Through video, photographs and mixed-media work the installation calls attention to the plight of global warming. The looped video portrays people read poems to the sea in different languages. A grid of hundreds of 5”x7” photographs is taped to gallery’s cement floor. The show suggests that the method of documentation has taken the place of the experience of nature itself, and that nature has been retreating day by day from our life.

“… The installation… conjures up the sea without getting wet as if positing the ocean as a metaphor for loss rather than inspiration…”

“…The ocean seems more as a lost lover than a companion... The work… concerns itself with the spare and worn appearances of urban blight… It manages to hold emotion and politics in balance through an airy, almost dreamy simplicity.

(Dawnell Smith, Anchorage Daily News, June 2006)