Installation, Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norway, as part of the Dreams of the High North exhibition.

Breathing Water consists of a vast volume of ocean plastic remnants cascading from the ceiling. They have been washed in seawater, baked in the sun, and traveled unknown distances. They have faded, fragmented, and rounded by sand and waves, unrecognizable.

The ocean plastics that formed this installation were collected along the shorelines across the globe over the past decade and a half, between the Arctic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and the seas in between. Materials are vessels of time. Plastic, is, perhaps, the vessel that marks our time.

Images by Eivind Egeland and Beili Liu Studio