Inundation - flooding

In Phyllis Ewen’s INUNDATION, imagination and memories interact with the natural world. Maps, charts, and photographs combine to create sculptural drawings– three-dimensional reliefs– inspired by the many forces that shape the earth's surface. Ewen scans charts and weather maps, then alters them in Photoshop, and prints these images. They are then reassembled to form imagined coastal images with the effects of anthropogenic global warming. The works in this exhibition evoke the rising waters flooding our coasts and relationships with the ocean. While maps typically imply that viewers are looking down at the earth, Ewen’s work invites viewers to place themselves in these landscapes and inhabit the seas as another way of understanding our relationship to land and sea.