Jan Alison Edwards and Ophélie Pauchet

WALK IN THE SUBMARINE FOREST- Invasive Species

 

INVASIVE SPECIES : PLANTS: PLASTICS: HUMANS?

 

The life below the sea is hidden from our sights and therefore from our consciousness. Only when creatures  of the sea end up beached, poisoned, suffocated do we consider this hidden world .

 

Visitors when walking through the  ” SUB MARINE FOREST” will encounter bobbing in the ebb and flow of the ocean , the Anthropocene sublime, not the natural world beneath the sea but the world of the “Invasive Species”. In stark contrast to the natural rhythms of the sea, the repetitive nature of the manmade creates a powerful  confrontation.

 

Jan Alison Edwards

Ophélie Pauchet

Installation created in 2019

 

Medium Handmade paper from invasive seaweed  (Sargassum muticum) + plant fibres, natural pigments ,  plant based starch  linen & cotton threads.

 

With thanks to Shore Collective Northern Ireland and the Marine Biology department of Queens

 

University, Bernard Picton Marine Biologist /Diver and Daryl Birkett Marine Biologist

Created by Jan Alison Edwards and Ophélie Pauchet whilst on an artist residency in Northern Ireland, using Sargassum muticum an invasive species of sea weed.

 

The installation can be wall or ceiling hung.

 

Installation consists of 250 moulded seaweeds forms from small bottle tops to dustbin lids & traffic cones, hung on cotton and line threads (no plastic line used)

 

 Mixed Media | Sea Weed Paper ( Sargassum Muticum) & Plant Fibres, Moulded Around Plastic Containers from the Beach (plastic removed.) Natural Pigments , Plant Based Starch.