The Tears of Amphitrite

The Tears of Amphitrite

This series, The Tears of Amphitrite, looks at the effect that our consumer choices are making on the marine environment, through the ever-growing mass of discarded plastic that flows from our terrestrial home to an oceanic grave.

In this work, I have re-constructed pictures by earlier artists, both painters and photographers, to create new representations of the marine plastic problem.

In the title photograph, Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη, the Greek goddess of the sea), weeps tears of plastic for her despoilt realm.

All the above prints are archival pigment ink on Canson Platine Photo Rag paper; cyanotype on Bergger COT 320 paper, all matted and framed to 50 x 40cm

Four cyanotypes were also created, referencing Anna Atkins’ 1843 work, Photographs of British Algae. These were displayed matted, as a 2×2 grid: