Isabel Beavers

Isabel Beavers is a transdisciplinary artist and creative producer based in Los Angeles. Their work explores ecologies, examines environmental histories and postulates about climate futures through multimedia installation + new media. Beavers’ work has been presented, exhibited, and screened nationally and internationally.

"What is 500 million years to a shark tooth?" Depicts an exploding nodule and the resulting cloud of dust. The shards of glass reference the violence of deep-sea mining, and the color gradients reference the ecological impacts that mining will impart on the ocean. The work considers deep time and the ontologies of deep-sea organisms. What has taken millions of years to grow is plucked from the seabed and sucked up through the vertical space of the ocean. Organisms in this part of the ocean also create the largest daily migration by mass on the planet, called diel vertical migration. In the safety of the dark, they swim up to shallower waters to feed in the moonlight. This movement contributes to the function of the oceans at large, to their enormous carbon sequestration capacity, and as a result, to the health of our planet.