A Word in Your Shell-Like (2015)
- Intervention art
A Word in Your Shell-Like
Live art
A piece created for Whitstable residents in response to a brief by Richard Layzell, as part of DIY 9 (Live Art Development Agency).
This was quite a simple, join-the-dots, idea for me. Whitstable is famous for it’s Oysters, Oyster shells cover the beach. Oysters reminded me of ears, which are also known as shell-likes.
I cast the ears of passersby on the beach, left them to set in plaster, then met each participant at sundown to take them down to the waters edge to give their ear-oysters back to the Whitstable sea.
