Signals (Catch and Release) — Kristen Neville Taylor

Signals (Catch and Release), 2017

The conceptual framework for this exhibition was dictated by time spent in residence at RAIR (Recycling Artist In Residence) in 2017. Here I learned that the great fallacy of trash is that it is prophetic in essence and presents itself to us in a co

After Nature (Water Filter) is based on recent findings by MIT researchers that discovered it’s possible to filter water using the xylem shaped filter of sapwoods such as pine or cedar. The work has both a pragmatic function- to show how simple mate

Signals Catch and Release takes from the term used in recreational fishing to describe a method of capturing, assessing, and releasing fish back to the water. The works for this exhibition were made during my time as a Recycled Artist in Residence (RAIR) in 2017. Here I consider the cost of the human pursuit of comfort and control and the futility of recycling and other attempts to offset the ill effects of capitalism. The exhibition includes a barn raising quilt made from insulation, custom water filters, a monument made from a tire planter inspired by Philadelphia's role as the first municipal water provider, and a shredded corporate office desk stuffed with fossils and a sound system that plays weather music tuned to a frequency that a man named John Hutchinson claims to have used to clean the water after the BP oil spill.