Carol Boram-Hays

Carol Boram-Hays

Industrialization has changed our world. As cycles of consumption and obsolescence become increasingly rapid, cast-offs from our disposable lifestyle is leaving earth degraded. Attempting to adapt to an onslaught of changes, nature is creating hybrids fusing the man-made and natural. Mollusks incorporating plastics into their shells, and organisms adapting to tolerate former poisons are just some examples. Inspired by these new life forms, I work with reclaimed metal cast within concrete. The uncanny forms suggest an animated fusion of the organic and industrial. The colors evoke the natural changes happening to these materials. The reclaimed materials reference how humanity has manipulated natural matter; and concrete as the most abundant human created sedimentary rock, is an important marker of the Anthropocene age. These hybrids characterize the new reality of our Anthropocene age. The forms that I create suggest that nature will triumph long after humans are extinct.

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