Residue, 2015-now

Tessa Grundon, Residuum (Wave Hill) series, 2015, Plant material, raw beeswax, earth and charcoal from Wave Hill on handmade paper, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist

16 tiles of brown, cream, and purple toned abstract compositions. Plastic Tides takes as its departure point discarded plastic bags and other objects from around the world that regularly wash ashore in New York Harbor. Grundon’s innovative printing of these already abstract, found compositions on the reverse of the photo paper creates fuzzy object boundaries that bleed into one another—serving as a metaphor for the arbitrariness of modern-day borders.