Holdfast

Holdingfast: Love Letters in a Time of Ecological Mourning. 2026. Installation and painting. Various works, paper, seaweed pigment, copper wire, light, projection, sound, poetry, cyanotype and eco print. Moores Building Art Space.

Holdingfast: Love Letters in a Time of Ecological Mourning moves through coastal worlds where seaweed, light, sound, and matter persist as fragile traces of ecological change. The work explores climate change and marine degradation through handmade paper, cyanotypes, projection, biomaterials, poetry, and sculpture, attending to the shifting relationships between human systems and the living environments that sustain them.

Rooted in both ecological mourning and wonder, the installation seeks to listen to what is often overlooked. Seaweed emerges not as passive material, but as collaborator, witness, and living archive—carrying stories of interconnection, endurance, vulnerability, and transformation. Through suspended forms, illuminated surfaces, drifting voices, and tactile encounters, the work lingers between presence and disappearance, intimacy and loss.

Composed of poetic texts, cyanotype impressions, handmade paper, seaweed biomaterials, sound, and light, the installation unfolds as a conversation between what remains and what is slipping away. Language, image, and material move like tidal currents throughout the space—appearing, dissolving, and returning in altered forms. Memory becomes ecological rather than personal, held within bodies of water, marine organisms, and the material traces of human activity.

As viewers move through the installation, their attention becomes part of its unfolding. In this encounter, seaweed reveals itself as animate and relational—a living archive shaped by time, touch, and environmental change. Holdingfast invites reflection on how we might cultivate deeper forms of care, curiosity, and connection with the coastal worlds that continue to sustain us.