I consider myself an eco artist. I believe it's my responsibility to speak up the earth. In my practice it is essential for me to use materials in my artwork in a sustainable and sensitive way to convey my connection to the earth. As a devoted environmentalist it is important that my art be centred around preservation, conservation, education, and restoration with the community. This current work is a campaign of events centred around the subject of eelgrass. Eelgrass is 10 times more efficient at cleaning the air as a same size boreal forest and will clean our air for a millennia if left undisturbed, I feel that this important species that gives us air to breath, cleans up our pollution and gives home and food to hundreds of other species should be one of the many natural plant species we should be preserving and protecting. Humans have caused a significant loss to this important ecosystem. Ninety five percent of seagrasses are gone from Campbell River to Nanaimo, and this significant degradation is occurring worldwide.

 

We must speak up now and take action if we are to have clean air to breath. The Eelgrass.org projects will create a space to host a series of eco art projects on the local estuary and in the community to raise awareness about it’s importance in our lives. Each event will have the brand eelgrass.org associated with it, that will direct viewers to take action and visit eelgrass.org for more information, to learn more, take part in events and support local restoration efforts.

 

Action is needed to repair the destruction and degradation of our planet and it is creating a fire in me that needs to take action to speak up the earth. I hope to do this through the eelgrass.org project and throughout my art practice to share a dialogue with others about what we can do to preserve and protect our earth locally and globally.