Arts Thread

my project explores coral, reflecting the duality of beauty and decay found in the bleached architectual forms that lie beneath the oceans surface. Coral reefs are an endangered environment - as global warming strips them of life through the process of bleaching it brings with it a silent death to marine life and the gradual loss of oxygen from our air. There is a profound and unsettling beauty in this loss and it is this tension that sits at the heart of my work. I observed the rigid, skeletal forms of bleached coral and explored the contrasting tones, colours and textures between the living and dead. working within a neutral colour palette honours the quiet, ghostly quality of bleached coral and allows the complexity of texture and construction to speak.