Who has known the ocean?
Three Channel Video Installation
Rachel Carson writes in The Sea Around Us (1951), “The ocean is a place of paradoxes.”
Its vastness conceals both the most immense and the most minute forms of life, with humans employing a manifold of tools and technologies to try to grasp the complexities of these intertwined systems. In my research on planktonic entities and their roles in planetary cycles, I reframe the act of sampling not just as a scientific method but as an artistic and embodied practice of attunement to the ocean’s elusive microcosms.
One simple yet invaluable tool in this pursuit is the plankton net, a low-cost device still widely used to observe and monitor plankton communities. From the meditative drifting of the net to the intricate observation of the organisms collected, the installation invites to engage with the unseen and ephemeral, drawing connections between the scientific and the poetic, the tangible and the imagined.
