Waterway (Biscayne Nature Center) 2020
Plastic water bottles, fishing line, swivels, lead weights, stainless steel cable, turnbuckles, hooks and eyes
54’ x 4’ x 7’-5’
Sculpture- Jenna Efrein
Nighttime Projections- Christin Paige Minnotte
Photo Credit- Christin Paige Minnotte
Video Production- Michael Honablue
“Waterway” is a spatially transformable installation designed to be an immersive architectural experience informed by the glut of single-use plastic polluting our oceans. The piece is composed of approximately 7000 thousand community collected plastic bottles. Viewers traverse a pathway, submerged in a sonorous rattle and swaying brush of bottles that specifically invokes the irony of the very liquid containers that are polluting our water. Installed outside it captures the dappled sunlight at night it was animated by projections of shimmering reflections of light on water. The installation gives the viewer a sense of being in the glittering beauty of the underwater environment, as if traveling through shifting currents of penetrating light and motion. Moving through the piece is a palpable, dynamic sense of the beauty of the ocean environment contrasted with a suffocating amount of plastic.