[dNASAb] Photography_"Faux Ecologies + Artificial Reefs of the Metaverse_Obscene Plasticene Daydream_ #7 " 2022

 "Faux Ecologies + Artificial Reefs of the Metaverse_Obscene Plasticene Daydream_ #7 " 2022

Photograph.Glossy pigment print mounted on aluminum with UV plexiglass edition of 7 + 2 AP

42" H (x) 27.94" W

“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature’s answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.” – William Irwin Thompson

"...Its this interplay between the fragility and resilience of both plastics and life,that excites me about our tenuous relationship with the "plasticene" and the natural world...."

[dNASAb]  ©__"The real enemy is the disneyfication of everything." 

https://dnasab.blogspot.com/?m=0

[dNASAb]_Photography _"Faux Ecologies + Artificial Reefs of the Metaverse _Obscene Plasticene Daydream_#4" 2022

 

"Faux Ecologies + Artificial Reefs of the Metaverse_Obscene Plasticene Daydream_ #4 " 2022

Photograph.Glossy pigment print mounted on aluminum with UV plexiglass

edition of 7 + 2 AP

48" H (x) 33.6" W

“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature’s answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.” – William Irwin Thompson

"...Its this interplay between the fragility and resilience of both plastics and life,that excites me about our tenuous relationship with the "plasticene" and the natural world...."

[dNASAb]  ©__"The real enemy is the disneyfication of everything." 

https://dnasab.blogspot.com/?m=0

[dNASAb] Video Sculpture _Mediated Reef ECOsystem____"Obscene Plasticene Daydream; LCD Coral Polyp #4" 2021

 

"Obscene Plasticene Daydream; LCD Coral Polyp #4"

[Mediated Reef ECOsystem]___video sculpture 2021_

LCD screen, reclaimed ocean styrofoam, upcycled marine debris+plastics from beach cleanups (bottle caps,syringe,kids toys,monofilament,..) screen shipping materials, recycled plastic, epoxy, resin, airbrush paints, fiber optics, LED's, unique 4K video of Coral Reefs in South Florida remixed with HD 4K video of Ocean plastics on shoreline. 

DETAIL___"Obscene Plasticene Daydream; LCD Coral Polyp #4"

“Like an Ocean gyre , a vortex of artifacts of a consumption based contemporary society such as; plastic bottles and bags, fishing nets, and helium balloons become en-snarled with driftwood, dead coral, and seaweed creating a grotesques amalgamation of disparate materials which remarkably can still harbor life and be a sculptural framework for life to grow. I aim to develop work that embodies this contemporary conundrum.”[dNASAb]

[dNASAb]  ©__"The real enemy is the disneyfication of everything." _

"Sculpting Life; A Recontextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem" by [dNASAb] 2014[Bloomberg Sculptural Aquascaping Project]

"Sculpting Life; A Recontextualization of the living marine reef ecosystem" by [dNASAb] 2014

Thermal formed plastics,24 hand cast archival images, 60 living corals, cast clear plastic 3-d fiber optic nodes,270 led's,acrylic, fiber optics,reclaimed/recycled plastics, aquatic resin, live rock, and a full marine ecosystem. #fiberopticreef #futurereef  #sculptinglife #dNASAb [iphone pics of install--full release next week]