"Messages from the Marsh" by Amy Kaczur
May 29 - June 11, 2022
Above: still images from “Messages from the Marsh”
Tell us about this artwork: What makes it unique?
“The Messages from the Marsh project is developed via site-specific research, video documentation, and in-person engagement. Videos shown reflect on immersion of spaces inhabited, spaces transformed, and spaces potentially lost. Each piece works in relationship with each other to suggest a fuller, interconnected and dynamic rhythm with resonant impact across their spaces. This work focuses on marsh locations on the east coast, areas that are projected to be lost under water by 2050 through combinations of sea level rise, tides, and storm surge. I video above and within the marsh water bodies, and also create topographical maps of the marshes. The maps are marking a moment in time before the potential loss of these areas to ocean reclamation and salt marsh ecosystem collapse. I’ll continue to research the impact of coastal marsh loss on the ecosystem and probable species extinction, and efforts in preservation and management.”
About the artist:
A Boston-based artist, producing video art for projection, installation and online, Amy Kaczur has lived and worked extensively in Boston, Cambridge, Long Beach and Los Angeles. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and she has participated in residency programs in California, Colorado, and New York. She is a member of Kingston Gallery, Boston. Kaczur’s work is grounded in environmental concerns, community and language. The latest projects are fueled by a sense of urgency related to water issues, specifically coastal flood zones and rising sea levels. She grew up outside Cleveland, with family ties working in farming, food industry, mills, and coal mines in rural Southern Ohio to the edges of Appalachia. Those roots impacted her experience of landscape and environmental issues, and the multilayered struggles between land use and conservation. She holds an MFA from University of California, Irvine, and a BFA from Tufts University.