Made from repurposed plastic marine rope left to pollute the ocean by a fish farm off the coast of British Columbia (Canada), "Fish Plant" examines our fraught relationship to production. In working with industrial marine plastic, I found myself drawn to the volition of the rope itself. Battered, twisted, and left in the ocean to fester as a solid-form oil spill, this fiber has witnessed its share of cruelty. Marine debris feels like material that carries memory in its stubborn insistence on holding certain twisted postures. Instead of using the ocean rope to farm diseased fish, I used it to grow the sort of fish that might adorn an underwater garden of hideous, beautiful things.
