ORT Project: The Alchemist's Journey; Through Detritus and Mold, A Fool's Leap Finds Gold

Definition of ORT: waste, scrap, a morsel left at a meal.

Ort Project is the collaborative union of artists Oona Nelson and Anna Noelle Rockwell, whose lush installations, photographs and interactive gestures explore and critique aspects of consumption, abundance, and decay. Their point of reference is the table, a site of dining and display, which they use as a staging platform for painterly nature morte tableaux in which the artists create ephemeral installations and photographs of edible and inedible subjects. Their work takes on the implications of food beyond that of nourishment, instead ORT marinates the more insidious, but visually rich implications—poisonous, gluttonous or hedonistic—to offer intoxicating critiques of social attitudes with collective perils. Within their work Ort blends the influence of art history, the contemporary cult of convenience and abundance, along with the corresponding environmental threats and distorted value systems, into uncommon balances of the grotesque and the beautiful.
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