The RPS Journal - Vol 153 No 7.
Photography.
Artist: Mandy Barker
SHOAL.
This very deep and thought provoking piece of art photography, uses various items of plastic and trash, that has been collected from a number of reference points across the tsunami destruction area, colelcted from the North Pacific. The image above, is made specifically from items collected from the floor of a Japanese home, located on the border of the pacific, the image not only depicts the tragedy of the event, but also the lives of the people who formally inhabited the home. Her images are created on a large scale, to depict the idea of a shoal of moving fish, this is very fitting to the original materials which where collected directly from the North Pacific.
I find this work very moving, and a peice that holds great depth, a peice that holds the story of a tragic event. The way she expresses an event in history through art, is something to be admired.
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