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Painting and Works on Paper
Painting and Works on Paper I utilize the genre of landscape painting to investigate the problematic psychological relationship between humans and the natural world while simultaneously suggesting an interconnected fate. My paintings warn of untold changes, exploring the imaginary and near-real, while envisioning a lessened human footprint and nature as an ultimately powerful and enduring presence. From Oceanic Global interview: Do your abstract paintings and drawings belong to the same universe as your ocean-centric sculptures? I view the paintings as an antidote to the plastic work, but still wholly part of the Drifters Project. They are visualizations of vast forces of collision between natural processes (such as chemical patination of copper) and industrial human-made products (like plastics, acrylics, resin, and oils) that are happening around the world, all shrunken to the manageable scale of a painting space. Through these works, I’m able to control the outcome and nature always comes out on top: the sun will come out, rainbows will form, and there will be another day. This practice helps me manage my emotionally and physically difficult
Drifters Project ~ Sea Cave Excavation gets a sponsor!!
RECOVER brands, makers of 100% recycled apparel, has come on board as a sponsor for Drifters Projects/Kefalonia Giant Sea Cave Excavation! Thanks Recover!~
Giant Sea Cave Excavation ~ Greece
In the summer 2011, Pamela Longobardi (US) swam to a massive sea cave from Liakas with Maria Rigatou (GR). It was immense and filled with many pieces of plastic, some very large. The two women swam out several large bags of material and large plastic objects. For Drifters Project/Kefalonia Phase II, Longobardi plans to clean the entire cave with a team of swimmers and to remove all the material and transport it to the Ionion Center of Art and Culture to document, analyze and create a single large-scale art installation in the gallery. In July 2012 the materials will be floated out of the cave as a giant raft of plastic, a floating island chain transported by swimmers – Longobardi, Sarina Basta (NY/Paris), a NY-based cultural producer and curator of the large-scale project in Monaco OCEANOMANIA, and Maria Rigatou, a musician living in Kefalonia. This action will be documented by Nickos Myrtou and a team of underwater and above water videographers to create a film that will be projected in the gallery with the array of plastic that
The Conscious Ocean
THE CONSCIOUS OCEAN proposes a collaboration that begins with the assumption that the ocean is a conscious entity that, in many different ways, from rising levels and temperatures to declining fish stocks to coral bleaching and finally to the deformed material plastic objects that float the world round, is attempting to communicate its declining state of being.. The CONSCIOUS OCEAN also proposes that, though geo-political boundaries and naming have created numerous different ‘oceans’ and ‘seas’, it is ONE WORLD OCEAN, one continuous, flowing, interconnected liquid entity.
Photography
Photography Photographic works that accompany Drifters Project actions, including forensic site photographs, Drifter object portraits, Prophetic Objects, and Plastic Crimes.
Installations 2006-2011
A collection of my installations 2006 to 2011.
