Inspired by the 500-year history of Anglo expedition to find the Northwest Passage and an “open” Polar Sea, Open Waters is an interactive art installation that examines 21C realities of environmental and geopolitical change, in connection with the melting of the ice cap at the North Pole. Once a myth stubbornly adhered to in the face of cryogeographic impassibility, sailable waters have become an Arctic reality, reconfiguring the globe as we know it. Open Waters also processes the global circulation of microplastics: the sixth plastic gyre forming in the southern Arctic, due to ice transport and melt, and debris-gathering global currents, as well as plastic transport and deposition within the Great Lakes system, and its potential output, through the St. Lawrence Seaway, to the North Atlantic gyre.

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