This work was done on Governors Island, in September 2019, during a residency withUnderwater New York and Works on Water. It is a contemplation on the materials we choose to purchase, use, conserve, recycle, and dispose of or waste.
Handmade paper made from recycled magazines, cardboard boxes, a picture book, paper towels, paper scraps, children’s drawings, mint tea bag wrappers, receipts, scavenged berries, old Christmas cards, photographs, algae, a plastic bottle, chestnuts, fabric and string and thread scraps, a balloon, a cardboard spool, rubber gloves, empty Emergen-C packets, blue tape, packing tape, food wrappers, double sided tape, and water collected on Governors Island.
