Sea Full of Clouds
Ciel Bergman and Nancy Merrill Installation, 1987
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
This installation combined trash collected from Santa Barbara, California, beaches into a temple of sorts as a forum for ecological inquiry. As a result of discussion at the closing ceremony, plastic recycling was instituted in Santa Barbara. It is featured in The Reenchantment of Art, 1991, by Suzi Gablik (Chapter 10, page 152), and more recently in Art for Life: Authentic Instruction in Art, by Tom Anderson and Melody K. Milbrandt, McGraw-Hill Higher Education (Chapter 12, page 188):