After making our first collaborative sculpture Trophy Fish in 2000, we turned away from using our plastic to make animals and such; and decided to only show the plastic, as is, in its matter of fact form.
When Doug Woodring from Ocean Recovery Alliance encouraged us to reach new audiences through online exhibitions, we took the bait and submitted an image of our Trophy Fish to Exhibizone's Kingdom Animalia who made many promises about how they would help to spread the word about our project.
Here are our digital "stamps."
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15626
Here's what might happen:
Stay tuned.
Trophy Fish is made of plastic lids and caps, collected from Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore. Stacked concentrically, the dense colors are playful and generous. In their quantity, the lids are purposeful and attractive.
Our curiosity about these ubiquitous pieces of plastic developed into a concept. Inspired by our explorations of the shore, we decided to make something to celebrate our time there. After much aesthetic wrangling, we were pleased to present a trophy fish: sea, time, fish, our place in history—a show-off piece.
