I was first interested in bags as a raw material – what could I do artistically with them while keeping them out of a landfill. I then got involved in pushing legislation and discovered so much about politics, perception and the power of the arts. And the journey keeps evolving.
The Creative Road is a Winding Pathway
The past month I’ve been in residency at Governor’s Island, a 172 acre island in New York harbor, with Works on Water and Underwater New York, two organizations who focus on water as a point of departure to further examine ecological change and the city respectively. Continuing my work with plastic bags, my objective was to create a glacier-like structure out of bags and begin to develop ideas for the performance piece the glacier will be featured in, We Are Drowning. What I landed on surprised me, opening new pathways.