Mud Will Remember Us | 2023

Installed at The Guardhouse, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA, Mud Will Remember Us proposes a speculative future in which a submerged former military guard station is home to new marine life forms adapted to and thriving amidst polluted, warming, acidifying, and rising oceans.

To create this installation, foraged local San Francisco Bay mud—containing byproducts of human activity such as plastics, heavy metals, and chemicals—was hand-formed into hundreds of sculptures suggesting simple-bodied organisms in evolutionary transformation. These objects were incorporated into a swarm of mobiles set against fluorescent red walls, playfully beckoning us to imagine this site beyond human memory.

Dimensions: 9′ h x 8′ w x 15′ l

Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Photo by Andria Lo
Mud Will Remember Us, 2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint
110" x 96" x 180"
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