Archaeology

I find myself returning to ideas, as I disassemble sculptures and reassemble and reinvent them here far away from the place where they were envisioned. After making three ocean crossings, I let the work morph into something slightly different. I recombine them with new elements, textures, metaphors. I snapped them apart in a garden in Switzerland, then squish them into tile grout upon a card table in Manhattan. One month of weekends were spent free diving in Hawaii so to collect these contemporary artifacts. They were alive then, being claimed back by the sea in a hundred year process. Young coral polyps, sponges and veils of plant life disguised them. I stole them from the seabed to study them, so change their context and reveal where lives collide.

Thirty Perspectives on...

Thirty Perspectives on the Environment

Anna Peach, 2005, photograph of Hawaiian Ohia tree viewed through device, eyeglass lenses

I received an interesting request from the Hawaiian Conservation Convention about the possibility of my making an exhibit for their July conference in Honolulu. I was somehow nominated by some brave soul who decided to stand up on my behalf. That in itself was impressive as the norm for Hawaii is Audubon style watercolors of extinct birds. Who knows maybe it was my before mentioned allies in the USDA. The only two catches I see is the fact that I am

a) in Switzerland

b) they want only 2-D work.

I will submit something none the less, and hopefully another member of the subcommittee will see that you can take a more contemporary approach to environmental art.