Painting and Works on Paper

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I utilize the genre of landscape painting to investigate the problematic psychological relationship between humans and the natural world while simultaneously suggesting an interconnected fate. My paintings warn of untold changes, exploring the imaginary and near-real, while envisioning a lessened human footprint and nature as an ultimately powerful and enduring presence. From Oceanic Global interview: Do your abstract paintings and drawings belong to the same universe as your ocean-centric sculptures?I view the paintings as an antidote to the plastic work, but still wholly part of the Drifters Project. They are visualizations…

Giant Sea Cave Excavation ~ Greece

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Drifters Project Phase II, Kefalonia July 2012

  In the summer 2011, Pamela Longobardi (US) swam to a massive sea cave from Liakas with Maria Rigatou (GR). It was immense and filled with many pieces of plastic, some very large. The two women swam out several large bags of material and large plastic objects. For Drifters Project/Kefalonia Phase II, Longobardi plans to clean the entire cave with a team of swimmers and to remove all the material and transport it to the Ionion Center of Art and Culture to document, analyze and create a single large-scale art installation…

The Conscious Ocean

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THE CONSCIOUS OCEAN proposes a collaboration that begins with the assumption that the ocean is a conscious entity that, in many different ways, from rising levels and temperatures to declining fish stocks to coral bleaching and finally to the deformed material plastic objects that float the world round, is attempting to communicate its declining state of being.. The CONSCIOUS OCEAN also proposes that, though geo-political boundaries and naming have created numerous different ‘oceans’ and ‘seas’, it is ONE WORLD OCEAN, one continuous, flowing, interconnected liquid entity.