the one and the many

I have begun expanding the piece with five additional panels for the opening of the faculty exhibition this evening. So far no one seems to see the connection between all the dead washed up egg sacks and the environment. The number of sacks is excessive and would not occur under normal conditions.
This work comes at a time when the supreme court has begun to align itself with the corporate agenda of oil production. The amount of punitive damages in the Exon Valdis case has already been cut ion half and there is every expectation that the new court will expunge the entire amount, opening the possibility of future financial immunity for large corporations in environmental cases. There is always the possibility that no one is aware of this case as it has evolved since the initial outrage. Most of the work that I do has a kind of allure, the beauty of the luminous surface of the water color process. It is maybe too subtle to see that this work is about ravaging shellfish, fishing out entire species, killing off huge populations as a collateral event to the systematic fishing of another species. I relate these killing fields across the psychological landscape of war. The idea of quantification in the numbers of the dead has been of interest to me for a long time. I am interested in how numbers are processed whenever an invasive species leaves piles of countable death.