CORAL
Woods Davy has gathered dead, bleached coral from the shores of various Caribbean islands, and produced a series of work he refers to as “Dead Flowers.” Before they died, these pieces of coral bloomed with colonies of living polyps, glowing with brilliant colors. He has now given them a new symbolic life, calling attention to global warming and other man-made distress factors that have created negative effects on our ocean’s environment. At once contemporary and archaic, these lifelike, pregnant forms manifest a calm reductive force, as they appear to rise to the surface of the ocean, or drift upwards to the skies. Evoking ancient Cycladic sculpture in their paleness and purity of form, while simultaneously addressing environmental issues of our time, these works reference the past and invoke thoughts about the future.
-Craig Krull
