Crossing the Ecoline: a visual response to increasing levels of ocean acidification

• Main Author: Bolton, Ingrid
• Other Authors: Langerman Fritha
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2016
• Subjects: Fine Art; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20654; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/20654/1/thesis_hum_2016_bolton_ingrid.pdf

This text is presented in conjunction with my exhibition Crossing the Ecoline and is a visual response to changing levels of ocean acidification. My art making is informed by the processes of dispersal and dissolution that occur at the point where the absorption of carbon dioxide takes place between the atmosphere and the ocean. This project is of an interdisciplinary nature and traverses art and science - both technically and through collaboration. By working in close consultation with marine scientists I hope to draw attention to the little-known issue of ocean acidification through creative means. Through the consideration of materials and processes I aim to bring attention to where billions of microorganisms called phytoplankton live. The project is concerned with the idea of the edge: boundary or border as a conceptual notion, as well as through my art making practice, its interdiscplinarity and subject matter.