Phyllis Ewen's work explores how our imagination and memories interact with the natural world. The movement of the earth’s surface has been a source of inspiration and imagery for more than a decade. The surface of the earth has many forces that affect it.

Ewen's sculptural drawings - 3-dimensional reliefs - have been “in the ocean” for many years, but in "INUNDATION," her pieces move on land as the waters flood our coasts. Maps, charts, and photographs form the basis for Ewen's work. She invites viewers to imagine themselves within the landscape, in topographical waterscapes. She scans charts and weather maps, alters them in Photoshop, and prints them. Then they are reassembled to form imagined coastal images–the effects of anthropogenic global warming. Although maps imply a viewer looking down at the landscape, Ewen hopes that the dimensional qualities of her images allow us to imagine ourselves within it; to inhabit the seas as another way of understanding.

Video filmed and produced by Kingston Gallery member Phyllis Famiglietti.