Residual Air

Bioaccumulation moves through ecosystems without announcing itself. Pollutants enter water, are absorbed by aquatic organisms, concentrate through food chains, and reach forms and locations far removed from their origin.

In this painting, a fish smokes a cigarette. It does not choose to. The smoke that rises from it crosses the waterline without interruption and disperses into a sky already carrying what we have released into it. The boundary between ocean and atmosphere, between the fish and the air above it, between what is outside and what is inside a living organism, is what the painting proposes has already dissolved.

The system continues. What moves through it has changed.