Freedive by Uto Iha and Chelsea Stephen

If you take a stroll down North Portland’s Mississippi avenue this August, then you might just find yourself under water. Open now through the end of August, good:a gallery is featuring Freedive, the first collaborative installation by artists Chelsea Stephen and Uto Iha. Using only recycled materials – 741 plastic bottles and 674 glass bottles to be exact – they created a mystifying underwater snapshot that will take your breath away. Their immediate message is simple: with some attention our trash can be transformed into beautiful resources. Upon diving deeper, its less about trash-to-treasure and more about the desire to return to a more natural order. In their statement they suggest that “humans are suspended in this interesting place between man-made and organic. We have an almost instinctive impulse to revisit nature, to return to water, to seek balance with the world”. Good:a gallery will open its doors for the closing reception on August 31, 2012, when you can step inside and walk away with your own little piece of it before its disassembled and transformed into something new and unknown…

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Freedive
Chelsea Stephen and Uto Iha
Free, all-ages show at good:a gallery
4325 N Mississippi,
Portland, Oregon
Closing Reception August 31, 2012 | 7-10pm