Rust

In November 2021 I walked along the shoreline of Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York and dug up rusted objects buried in the sand. Eroded from years of living in the ocean, these man made objects are now unidentifiable.

As I revisit these objects in 2023, I am creating archival pigment prints using a scanner bed as the camera, placing collected objects arranged with their shedding rust and algae particles to abstractly depict images resembling space and the cosmos. 

Rusted Object #12 Archival pigment print 30”x40” 2023

Rusted Object #1, Archival Pigment Print, 40”x30”, 2023

Rusted Object #2, Archival Pigment Print, 40”x30”, 2023

Rusted Object #18, Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”, 2023

Rusted Object #11, Archival Pigment Print, 40”x30”, 2023

Rusted Object #13, Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”, 2023

Rusted Object #10, Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”, 2023

Rusted Object #20, Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”, 2023

Rusted Object #16, Archival Pigment Print, 40”x30”, 2023

Rusted Object #15, Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”, 2023