laser cut reclaimed plexiglass, cast aluminum with black patina, found object (driftwood), wood ash, salt

In a ground of wood ash and salt, small cast aluminum elements drift alongside a root burl. The landscape teeters upon a stratified form of reclaimed plexiglass. This work brings together found and reclaimed components, waste and remnants into an island — in reference to the motif of the floating island found in fantasy and science fiction. Thematically, the isolated or “undiscovered” island has long served as a site for utopian or alternative ways of being in political theory and science fiction. Geologically speaking (and perhaps metaphorically), an island is formed by shifts, collisions, or eruptions. Materially, with driftwood, salt, and wood ash, the work alludes to weather events; flooding and fires. Water is not a physical material in the work, but is present nonetheless.