Sea and the Unseen

 

2017; edition of 13

Sea and the Unseen is a simple accordion structure made from a double-sided print with windows cut into each panel. The trash side is a screen print from a collograph of trash. The marine life is a reduction cut printed on a Vandercook letterpress. Both prints are layered over poured acrylic. The cover is also printed from the linoleum block with nearly invisible ink on handmade paper. The porthole has a small window of mica. The few words merely list a sampling of common plastics that have gathered as everlasting trash in the earth’s bodies of water. The viewer is encouraged to try to “see” through the layers, open and close the windows to overwhelm the marine life with increasingly larger amounts of trash.