When, in the Fall of 2018, 190 sea turtles succumbed to frigid water temperatures off the coast of Cape Cod, I felt as an artist that I wanted to do something!
This paralleled a time after a red tide in Florida in 2018 Summer where numbers upon numbers of sea animals died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen, toxicity... or ...we didn't know what was causing. and truly continues to cause, a massive die off of sea animals around the planet.
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*Sponsors will be recognized in multiple social and print media platforms*
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Individual sponsors include:
Aimee Scudder
Andy Fersch and Chelsea Scudder
Neil Wilson, ReMax Reality
Blackburn Energy, Andrew Amigo
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Clean River Project. Methuen, Massachusetts.
http://www.cleanriverproject.org/
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Massachusetts Audubon Society. WellFleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay
As both artist and curator,
dramatic freeze event in Fall 2018.
Note: It is a common occurrence for sea turtles to lose their lives in annual freeze events, but last year was very surprising to researchers because of the larger number of sea turtles that perished. Those numbers were unprecendented according to the
Cape Cod Audubon Society's, Jennifer Young.
SEE SPONSORS BELOW
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July 2019
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Sponsors are encouraged.
**Previous lecture with Ocean Alliance:
https://www.whale.org/blue-wave-gallerys-oceans-exhibit-supports-features-ocean-alliance/
I decided I would take on a project to create the same number of 190 sea turtles; representing the initial loss of the flash-frozen corpses of sea turtles found off the coast of Cape Cod soon after thedramatic freeze event in Fall 2018.
Note: It is a common occurrence for sea turtles to lose their lives in annual freeze events, but last year was very surprising to researchers because of the larger number of sea turtles that perished. Those numbers were unprecendented according to the
Cape Cod Audubon Society's, Jennifer Young.
SEE SPONSORS BELOW
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July 2019
I determined to initially create an interactive performance sculpture - that is just 1 larger-than-life sea turtle public sculptural work during the annual Artisans Revival Exhibit - as part of Yankee Homecoming - in Newburyport, MA. 2019.
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PRESS RELEASE
Art as action-oriented platform for change.
Scudder brings the conversation of pollution and plastics with a sculpture performance.
Art as action-oriented platform for change.
Scudder brings the conversation of pollution and plastics with a sculpture performance.
CONTACT: ASIA SCUDDER asiascudder@gmail.com
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Based on her concern for the environment: climate change but added the very serious nature of watershed and plastics pollution drifting to our waterways Scudder more specifically chose to relate one sculpture, it is a larger-than-life sea turtle which people can use to throw cast off plastic and other debris into, indicating how quickly trash accumulates. The proximity of this event takes place at the mouth of the Merrimack River which opens to the wide open ocean thus it brings poignancy to the heightened concern of plastic pollution and what we as consumers can do to change our habits. Kids and families are invited to participate by making their own smaller sea turtle designs.
Key words: #Plasticpollution, #Climatechange, #Citizenactivists, #Politicalartaction, #Environmentalart, #artandtheenvironment #asiawireart #artistasiascudder
The sea turtle project is the focus of this event but feeds into a much larger project: Plastic Islands on Main Street, which also brings about inspired action brought about by global impact of plastic pollution. Never before has there been so much death due to the toxity of our own waste. The sculpture means to visually bring focus to the topic of the fragility of a collapsing ecosystem. In this way art becomes a vector to share information, while building awareness, on how plastics are impacting our health and our environment. This truly is happening now. It is not futuristic!
Materials:
Copper builds the body of the sea turtle as it shows the visibility of the problem. The re-bar used reminds us of the practical mystery of how to solve the complexity
the issue of Earth's permanence inspite of addition of plastic pollution.
Questions asked during week-long exhibit will include:
What new strategies are needed & can be employed?
How can we as consumers make a difference? What about shifts in policy?
Social media sharing is a major part of this project. As well as a working table for visitors to create a smaller version of the sea turtle to put on display.
Resource articles
(A few recent examples): https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/world/microplastic-pollution-turtles-study-intl-scli/index.html
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PATREON SITE TO SUPPORT PROJECT FOR AS LITTLE AS $14/MONTH:
http//www.patreon.com/asiascudder
Inn Street Artisan's Revival #yankeehomecoming event pages: https://www.facebook.com/events/861681570862300/
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The materials connect enriching the conceptual framework of our Earth having longevity, and juxtaposed that is time, an urging to pay attention due to the Earth's fragility to a collapsing ecosystem. As a way of gaining awareness that this is really happening now and proof of numbers is no longer speculation or futuristic in other words. The copper represents 'hope' while the re-bar represents the darker mystery to 'how to' cause strategies to resolve this highly complex issue.
Portions of proceeds to go to one of of the following non-profit organizations listed below chosen by individual donor (33% of each full sponsorship)
*Sponsors will be recognized in multiple social and print media platforms*
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Individual sponsors include:
Aimee Scudder
Andy Fersch and Chelsea Scudder
Neil Wilson, ReMax Reality
Blackburn Energy, Andrew Amigo
www.whale.org
FPMT Social Services Fund: Protecting Environment and Living Beings. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains, “There is cause, karma – and then there are conditions. The earthquake and so forth is not coming from outside, it is coming from the mind. This is according to the view of all four schools of Buddhism. What Shakyamuni Buddha said, ‘You are the guide to yourself, also the enemy of yourself.’ That is reality, because every day whether you have problems or happiness it is because of what you do with your mind. Which way you make your mind think. If you make your mind to think positively, you have peace. If you make your mind to think negatively you have problems.//fpmt.org/projects/fpmt/social-services-fund/protecting-environment-and-living-beings/
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Clean River Project. Methuen, Massachusetts.
http://www.cleanriverproject.org/
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https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay
This caused Scudder to want to do something... but what? As visual artist she has determined to create 190 sea turtles to be completed over one year's time. The sea turtle sculptures that she is making are 22 inches in diameter approximately and are offered to sponsors of this project. Not only will sponsors receive recognition, but they will be able to take part in several online conversations or in-person round table discussions to be held over the course of 1-year. The sea turtle is representation of a serious concern that if we don't take radical action we are destined to cause further, possibly irreversible damage to our Earth, impacting our health as well as the health of animals around the world.
*Sea Turtle wire sculpture* - This is not just an "art project", it is a people project. A time for awakening - shedding old habits and stepping forward.
For all of beings on this planet!
Ocean Dreams' Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/345402162677248/
Ocean Dreams Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/asiascudder
For all of beings on this planet!
Ocean Dreams' Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/345402162677248/
Ocean Dreams Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/asiascudder
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