Artist's Statement

‘I need the sea because it teaches me, 

 

I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, 

 

if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, 

 

or only its harsh voice or its shining 

 

suggestion of fishes and ships. 

 

The fact is that until I fall asleep, 

 

in some magnetic way I move in 

 

the university of the waves.

 

It’s not simply the shells crunched 

 

as if some shivering planet 

 

were giving signs of its gradual death; 

 

no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment, 

 

the stalactite from a sliver of salt, 

 

and the great god out of a spoonful.

 

What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air 

 

ceaseless wind, water and sand.’

 

Pablo Neruda ‘The Sea’

 

My work comments on our relationship with nature and, more recently, the sea in particular. The 

 

effects of our careless attitude and lack of respect towards the environment we live in is becoming 

 

of increasing concern and I am interested in the way the sea tries to break down our waste products, 

 

and how the results can sometimes be unexpectedly beautiful.