Bass Winter IV continues my long-term exploration of changing American landscapes; how light, memory, and environmental thresholds leave their marks on a place long after the moment has passed. This year’s commission takes inspiration from fieldwork in Matlacha, a small island in coastal Florida that has lived many lives: a once-working fishing village, reshaped by a historic strike; a community battered by hurricanes and rising tides; and in recent decades, a haven for artists who painted color back onto the ruins. The pieces in this collection carry that spirit of resilience. Quiet, luminous, and layered with the sense that the world is always shifting beneath us.

Each work is printed on translucent Mylar and elevated from its reflective substrate, allowing natural shadows to fall behind the image, reflecting back the shifting colors as the light drifts throughout the day. This floating effect echoes the liminal quality of Matlacha itself - an island suspended between memory and reinvention, between the storms that carve it and the people who refuse to let it disappear. These small works are designed to be intimate thresholds: windows into a place that survives by adapting, and into the wider themes explored in my Thresholds series and forthcoming book.

Thank you for inviting these pieces into your collection. Each artwork is part of an ongoing documentary practice that traces how environments change and how we change with them.

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