1°55’30” N(Self Portrait as Atoll)

1°55’30” N(Self Portrait as Atoll)

Artist: Mary Babcock

Title: 1°55’30” N(Self Portrait as Atoll)

Attribution: 1°55'30" N(Self Portrait as Atoll), 2017, Mary Babcock

Year: 2017

Materials: Salvaged nets and line, maps, deep sea leader line

Dimensions: 68" x 96" x 3"

Image Statement: 1° 55' 30" N travels midway through the Maldives, a gathering of atolls located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. This country faces the threat of resubmergence back into the waters within our children’s lifetimes due to climate change driven by our greed and mass consumption. Patterend after an abstracted image of my own body underwater, I become the atolls in the act of dissolution.