Luminaria 2016 – Hays Street Bridge
Margaret Craig exhibits The Albatross at Luminaria 2016 at San Antonio's Hays Street Bridge, a performance of her Great Trash Reef installation series.
Galleries
Trash Reef Incarnation
The expanding trash reef and details - a bleached translucent section, marbled features, an anemone formed from a discarded yogurt bottle.
Plasticene Creatures & Outgrowth Boxes
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.
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 slicks, and driftwood and plastic bits, and even an etched selfie as I am tossed in the mix.…
Berlin Plastic Art
An extension of my Berlin residency - alternative life forms evolved from plastic and recyclables.
The Great Trash Reef
These synthetic lifeforms represent life as it adapts to how we as humans disturb the environment.
Great Pacific Trash Vortex
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
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
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.
Luminous
Installation at San Antonio Luminaria 2011. Small life forms bud off from an alien infestation in an abandoned stairwell.