Gyre Pacifica: Waterform_1
Gyre Pacific: Waterforms
Inspired after seeing a large book of Albert Seba’s “The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities”, where the Amsterdam collector hired artists to paint his vast collection of animal, plant and sea specimens, I wanted to paint a new series named “Gyre Pacifica” using the same graphic format.
One of today’s contemporary “curiosities” is of the Pacific Gyre (the Great Pacific garbage patch): a vast circulating current above the Hawai’ian islands that captures pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and floating debris the size of the United States. The plastic debris does not break down and is added to the microscopic particles in the water column.
The Gyre currents often deposit the residue at Kamilo beach on the Southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i to which I have gone to help clean the beach of it’s tons of plastic. There is a beach area where the “sand” is made of small broken plastic particles.
The Gyre Pacific paintings is a contemporary commentary on Seba’s book as well as to our worldwide pure water sources, whether it be in the seas or from the mountains. With all the plastic and debris being broken down to microscopic polymers, these organic waterforms of pure water maybe things of the past.
Relegated, preserved and framed in old style chests as distant memories.
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches paper, burnt edges; background: Kamilo plastic in tinted, ground polyester resin.
Inspired after seeing a large book of Albert Seba’s “The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities”, where the Amsterdam collector hired artists to paint his vast collection of animal, plant and sea specimens, I wanted to paint a new series named “Gyre Pacifica” using the same graphic format.
One of today’s contemporary “curiosities” is of the Pacific Gyre (the Great Pacific garbage patch): a vast circulating current above the Hawai’ian islands that captures pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and floating debris the size of the United States. The plastic debris does not break down and is added to the microscopic particles in the water column.
The Gyre currents often deposit the residue at Kamilo beach on the Southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i to which I have gone to help clean the beach of it’s tons of plastic. There is a beach area where the “sand” is made of small broken plastic particles.
The Gyre Pacific paintings is a contemporary commentary on Seba’s book as well as to our worldwide pure water sources, whether it be in the seas or from the mountains. With all the plastic and debris being broken down to microscopic polymers, these organic waterforms of pure water maybe things of the past.
Relegated, preserved and framed in old style chests as distant memories.
Watercolor and acrylic on Arches paper, burnt edges; background: Kamilo plastic in tinted, ground polyester resin.
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