A Polar Bear Drowns in Evaporated Seas, 2022
Evaporated salt, foam, acrylic paint, and clear acrylic rods
7 ft x 19 ft x 9 ft 7 in
Video walkthrough
​Artwork's statement
A Polar Bear Drowns in Evaporated Seas was a site-responsive installation created for the Grizzly Grizzly Art Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The installation created a crystalized landscape of evaporated salt, which encompassed the whole of the gallery space. The focal point of the installation was a to-scale polar bear skeleton, emerging out of the floor of the space and suspended in a lattice of plexiglass and crystalized salt. 

The work depicted the dual crystalline deserts of an arctic tundra and evaporated ocean, two environments that are linked through time, but never existing simultaneously. As these landscapes transition from one to the other, the polar bear is crushed between their geological overlap. The salt-encrusted skeleton in this installation is a fossil. Like the apex predator that bore it, it is powerful and beautiful, yet in the context of the installation, it is also fragile and pathetic. A Polar Bear Drowns in Evaporated Seas is meant to be a memorial, spectacle, and crumbling graveyard. 
Time-lapse video of installation