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The conceptual framework for this exhibition was dictated by time spent in residence at RAIR (Recycling Artist In Residence) in 2017. Here I learned that the great fallacy of trash is that it is prophetic in essence and presents itself to us in a course of preordained events. This exhibition proposed otherwise, that trash can be an accurate gauge of a culture’s shifting value systems and can be traced back not only to its origin of extraction but to modern society’s predominant Judeo-Christian beliefs. The title borrows from the term used in recreational fishing to describe a method of capturing, assessing, and releasing images and objects back to the world. Items collected and altered from the recycling center such as silver insulation, grass seed and a hurricane lamp come back together to tell a story of the human pursuit of comfort and control.
photos courtesy of Haigen Pearson
After Nature (Water Filter) is based on recent findings by MIT researchers that discovered it’s possible to filter water using the xylem shaped filter of sapwoods such as pine or cedar. The work has both a pragmatic function- to show how simple materials create access to clean water and a metaphorical function- the branch is shaped like a divining rod, a device thought to be able to help one find water on land.