Pamela Grau

As an artist I have been exploring found objects since 1992. Collecting and repurposing is my ongoing commentary about living in a consumptive culture. I manipulate, paint and embellish discards: socks, tennis nets, take-out cups, abandoned things heading to landfills. I create colonies of units pushing them to resemble sea urchins and oysters unifying them into communities and individualizing them within the collective. The results are quiet contemplative pieces that evoke nature and our place in it.