Category: Galleries

Trash Reef Incarnation

Red And Yellow Space Lobster Detail

The expanding trash reef and details - a bleached translucent section, marbled features, an anemone formed from a discarded yogurt bottle.

Plasticene Creatures & Outgrowth Boxes

Margaret Craig - Outgrowth Box (blue, unlit)

These creatures represent the Plasticene Epoch, a period of time currently unfolding as plastic refuse evolves into new life forms in inundated oceans.

Projected Evolutions (Duende Art Project, Houston, TX)

Nature uses the plastic so prevalent in the environment to evolve new life forms. This installation displays a variety of bio-flora emerging from the walls and lights of The Duende Art Project in Houston, TX.

Great Trash Reef (Blue Star)

The Great Trash Reef synthesizes waste materials and salvage into alternative life forms. Gyre currents in the world’s oceans accumulate trash into islands. Their predominant component is plastic, which breaks down into smaller neurostatic bits, or nurdles. Tragically, small animals…

Burning Bones

These pieces were completed at a residency at Burning Bones press in Houston, Texas. They are a continuation on my meditation of the destruction and pollution of our oceans and the sea life evolving from the problem. Look for oil…

Berlin Plastic Art

Latte Topper Anenome detail

An extension of my Berlin residency - alternative life forms evolved from plastic and recyclables.

The Great Trash Reef

Trashblob

These synthetic lifeforms represent life as it adapts to how we as humans disturb the environment.

Great Pacific Trash Vortex

Nurdles 8
Nurdles are microplastic particles in the environment broken down by mechanical forces like sunlight or waves. Here they emerge as new life forms.

Malleable Objects

double anemon edetail

Malleable Objects are creatures lifted from the sea to fall flat from lack of watery support, other worldly landscapes created for things that might exist.

Flats & Floaters

Margaret Craig - Flats and Floaters 3

Details and installation shots from my show at Gray Duck gallery in Austin, TX. Representations of the organic floating aliens also appear in the prints on the wall.