interventions: Sea Fan of the Deep (or My Vein)
Sea Fans look like plants with colorful, forked "branches." however, they are animals, like their relatives, the corals and the jellies. Sea fans are colonial animals — they're made up of many tiny, individual animals that work together as one.Sea fans (and their relatives the sea whips and gorgonians) grow very slowly. In some areas, fishing trawlers snag and destroy many sea fans in their nets — some sea fans trawled near Nova Scotia were over six feet tall and 500 years old! And, because sea fans and other slow-growing deep-sea animals provide shelter for young fishes and other organisms, removing the sea fans can affect many other species.
unsanctioned intervention, Washington, DC 2022
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink, sequined thread, archival Fabriano paper (19 X 26)
