Lyn Mather's piece at Omni Hive was an installation based on the steps leading up to the first floor. It consisted of jetsam collected on Clonea East Strand, Co. Waterford, gathered on the high tide drift-line within a relatively short time.
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| Drift-line Debris - deconstructed clonea strand (detail) |
Short Artist Statement:
As an artist concerned with
environment and ecology, I am interested in depicting the human cultural
impact on life and the kind of landscapes and eco-systems we create and
contribute to. Often this includes looking at the processes of nature
in relation to cultural expression unfolding in time. My work is
concerned with giving nature a voice or showing human cultural forms
where they converge and form a collective layer with what was once
pristine nature.
Drift-line Debris portrays a
collection of lost and abandoned plastic roping, netting and washed up
blue gloves once used in the nearby oyster trade. On the steps,
individual objects and organisms are displayed as found - some are to
various degrees damaged and decomposed as the tide of time is processing
all of these back into the sand and sea.
Whilst
all of this debris washes up on a strand on a high tide line between
the sea and land bank, the drift-line that we often walk along in hope
of discovery perhaps, this installation of objects are portrayed in
circles of sand to highlight that each of these pieces have their own
story to tell.
