'grounded' drawing.

this model of a oil tanker sat in the National Waterfront museum earlier in the year for an exhibition that explored our complex relationship to oil, currently never too far from the headlines -be it spills or prices. I wanted to see what it would look like grounded in my collected PU foam pebbles, one of oils many byproducts.

Once discarded, the foam treated by the sea as any other material breaks down into such small cells, that along with other plastics is believed now to be amongst the chemical composition of sand on beaches and mistaken by fish and birds as food. Not good news.