"I don’t expect to finish it," she admits. "But the attempt is the point. The deep sea doesn’t care about our deadlines. It works in epochs. So will I."
By J.L. Rivers
In the rarefied world of deep-sea exploration, scientists speak in data points: temperature gradients, parts per million of dissolved oxygen, the crushing weight of psi at 10,000 meters. In the world of contemporary art, critics speak in movements and manifestos. Heather Deep speaks both languages fluently—and her new body of work, Abyssal Plains , proves that the darkest place on Earth might just hold the key to our brightest creative awakening. heather deep
