Margaret Craig | Bleached Reef and Other Devolutions | Gallery100 at Palo Alto College

Palo Alto College Fine Arts Gallery100

October 27 – December 2, 2021

Gallery Hours:
Monday 9am-3pm
Tuesday 8am-12pm
Wednesday 9am-3pm

Artist Statement:
My art is a contemplation of the ways we affect the plants and animals around us, and how we may be affected by them. I approach this both from a biology background as well as from artistic printmaking methodologies. My intent is to create work that will engender thought about the relationship between humans and their surroundings. My recent interpretation involves plastic, which I repurpose and evolve into creatures which might one day populate the congregation of trash in the ocean gyres. This is not without precedent. The bacteria, ideonella sakainsis, eats plastic. This current work begins to talk about the bleached reef with the new “Anima Plastica” evolving to pale coloration to fit with this devastated environment. As an artist, I utilize and manipulate plastic in communicating my message. Society must utilize and manipulate messages like mine to achieve a solution to the global problem of waste plastic.

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