Documented artwork / interactive light installation

The Last Ocean

Reclaimed ocean and ocean-bound plastic becomes an interactive field of illuminated platforms. The traveling work evokes Antarctic ice and responds to visitors while drawing attention to plastic pollution and environmental change.

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Year / version: 2022
Materials: reclaimed ocean plastic, ocean-bound plastic
Documented setting: outdoor
Dimensions: 800 square feet in the studio’s Ursa Minor launch description
Dimensions apply to: Historical description of the field accompanying Ursa Minor’s 2022 debut; not a universal touring footprint.
Availability: Unconfirmed

Places & versions

Installation history

Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.

2022
Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
City
Black Rock City
State / region
NV
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
Burning Man
Start year
2022
Date meaning
premiere
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source
2022
Beacon Park, Detroit, Michigan
Site
Beacon Park
City
Detroit
State / region
MI
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
Detroit Design Week
Start year
2022
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source
2022
Canal Convergence, Scottsdale, Arizona
City
Scottsdale
State / region
AZ
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
Canal Convergence
Start year
2022
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source
2023
Vivid Sydney, Sydney, Australia
City
Sydney
Country
AU
Event
Vivid Sydney
Start year
2023
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source

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How this work was made and presented

Fabrication and material development for the 2022 work

The material supply was part of the artwork

For The Last Ocean, Jen Lewin Studio worked with South Africa’s Ocean Plastic Technologies to recover ocean and ocean-bound plastic from coastal communities. The studio describes grinding and melting this material into components and rethinking its fabrication process over multiple years. Marjorie Rice’s Type 9 pentagonal tiling informed the platform geometry. The environmental subject is therefore expressed through both the interactive ice-field imagery and a documented material-development collaboration.

Jen Lewin Studio — The Last Ocean ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

For your project brief

What material documentation, replacement-component process and end-of-exhibition reuse plan can accompany a proposed presentation?

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Stargazer Lawn, Sydney, Vivid Sydney 2023

Stargazer Lawn: environmental interpretation through participation

Vivid Sydney’s 2023 record locates The Last Ocean at Stargazer Lawn on Hickson Road. The event describes visitors moving across the work and changing its illuminated colors, with interpretation connecting the installation to John Weller’s work protecting Antarctica’s Ross Sea. This named presentation provides a useful example of pairing an interactive landscape with an environmental story. It establishes a historical venue and audience experience, not the dimensions or operating specification for another site.

Vivid Sydney — The Last Ocean, 2023 ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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How will the host make the environmental interpretation understandable to visitors who observe without stepping onto the artwork?

Big Art Partners planning prompt

Interactive art installations ↗Light art installations ↗Outdoor sculpture & installations ↗Art documented at Burning Man ↗