Tide Pool
2020
H: 39”, W: 20”, L: 20”
Paper, wood, cellophane
Tide Pool was created during my first time living farther than a few hours from the Atlantic Ocean. The sculpture was created out of a desire to both quench my homesickness and critique it - a piece of the ocean is brought to the Midwest, but it is an exaggerated and otherworldly representation that can only exist in memory and imagination. Both nostalgic and bittersweet, the tidepool contains all of the childlike expectations of what may lie beneath the surface but is ultimately an illusion that references ideas of the ocean rather than any concrete ecosystem. The viewer cannot see what is inside the blank pedestal until they directly approach it and peer in to view the approximately 24” deep shadow box.