NT - Final Presentation

 In developing my art practice, I have taken inspiration from artists who use various materials and methodologies to convey their perspectives on environmental and societal status to their audience. Nedko Butzev and Mark Dion have both highlighted how art can be transformative in using functional and logical connections to do so. In my thesis exhibition, I showed the series Human Interference, which includes four pieces that refer to the influence of urbanization on Hudson and Bergen county in New Jersey. Equipping a map of superfund sites along with portraits of macroinvertebrates, vital organisms whose quantity depicts the health of the body of water in which they inhabit, I asked the audience to examine their relationship with nature and our interactions. Following the completion of my BFA exhibition, I will continue developing my work with environmental studies, observing relationships between urbanization and capitalism with the quality of life for living things. For my next project, I seek to create a three-dimensional work using existing land and found objects. Exploring the impact of what we leave behind, I will use soil and discarded objects/trash to bury or “plant” objects, plant grass seeds or moss, and allow the land to grow around them, still allowing for the shapes to be visible; therefore, highlighting Earths consuming nature and how we cannot control how or where things are digested once we create and discard these objects.

 NT - Final Presentation