01_Hidden Lands (front)

The Sea Around Us



 

 



The Sea Around Us



The Sea Around Us


Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.

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Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.

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Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.

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Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.

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Inspired by Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, this interdisciplinary series engages drawing, sculpture, and installation to examine the ocean as both material system and cultural imaginary. Utilizing marbled unglazed clay, brass, steel, graphite, wax, mirror and wood, the works foreground processes of sedimentation, geological time and tension between the natural and built environment. Individually and collectively, the works evoke the complex beauty, slow violence, and reciprocal entanglements that surface as urban and ecological systems inform one another. Each title is sourced from Carson’s 1951 text, positioning the series in dialogue with a lineage of ecological scholarship.


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01_Hidden Lands (front)
04_Scacco-Debra_The-Changing-Year_Graphite-wax-and-clay-on-paper_42x86-in_2025_01
07_Bright-Skin_California-clay
10_World-without-Light
13_Pattern-Beneath-the-Surface-Detail
02_Hidden Lands (back)
05_Scacco-Debra_The-Changing-Year-Detail_Graphite-wax-and-clay-on-paper_42x86-in_2025_01
08_Mirror-of-the-Sea
11_The-Moving-Mirror_California-clay
14_Pattern-Beneath-the-Surface_Detail_6326
03_Scacco-Debra_The-Gray-Beginnings
06_Between-Sea-and-Air
09_Sea-Around-Us_Installation-General
12_Pattern-Beneath-the-Surface-Broad

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