Emily Sullivan Smith
  • WORKS
    • PLIGHT OF ABUNDANCE
    • PRIVATE ISLAND
    • NON-SEQUITUR
    • SUBMERGED
    • GOLD
    • INTERSTICE
    • PANTONE COLORS FOR HOME AND FASHION
    • ABSTENTIA
    • DYSTOPIA >
      • AMASSED GROWTH
    • FIELD STUDIES
  • COLLABORATIONS
    • FOREIGN MATTER
    • UNDER ONE ROOF: THE SQUEEGEE PROJECT GROUP
    • GRINDER
  • STATEMENT
  • CV
  • CONTACT
SUBMERGED
2013, at The Kent State University School of Art, Downtown Gallery 
Sullivan's work for Kent State Universityʼs School of Art, Downtown Gallery is titled, Submerged. Sullivan is interested in disconnect of consumer culture, between purchasing and discarding objects. Having amassed a large collection of colored plastics, she set out to create this piece which is inspired by the large islands of plastics which gather in our oceans. The island is juxtaposed with a coral reef, to signify the ocean floor and its relationship between this unnatural land-form. The plastics are arranged by color in an attempt to over-aestheticize and therefore pacify this challenging truth. 

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