sea(b)east

Created: 20141115

Source: SharkhamPoint⋅Devon⋅England⋅UK

Collected: 2012-2014

The sea(b)east is one of an ongoing series of works using material sourced from the fishing industry.

The idea was to create an imagined deep sea creature of wonder from the waste materials used to catch sea life using waste material that scatters unique areas of the coastline, and is extremely hazardous to marine and coastal life.

The orange plastic pieces are washed up fragments of the floats used on the edges of trawler nets to keep them buoyant. When the floats come away from the nets they are eventually smashed against the rocky South Devon coast and deposited in various coves and beaches, some better than others, my hidden beach being one of the most consistent over the years.

This piece utilises actual fishing net waste too, with a curved scaling reference to crustations of the sea, and lit up like the luminous creatures of the deep ocean.