71 GROHE Magazine 70 Pure Freude an Wasser Artist and activist Courtney Mattison uses colorful contrasts in her larger than life coral reef imitation installations highlighting how far ocean damage has gone A lucid coral reef of fleshy reds highlighted by sage and emerald greens is surrounded on all sides by deathly white skeleton corals emerg ing from the surrounding midnight blue abyss Courtney Mattison an artist and activist from San Francisco had an early fascination with these beautiful underwater ecosystems which she renders in her larger than life ceramic imi tation coral installations Her fixation on these rich hued kingdoms is not just for their beauty but for their somewhat treacherous exhilarat ing nature as she puts it I love coral reefs for being exotic diverse and often venomous For subject matter so colorful it s a serious subject that Mattison has concerned her career with since in real life this lively coral is deeply threatened by ocean pollution such as our reli ance on non recyclable plastic for bottles and packing materials In a bid to save those beauti ful colors from bleaching out the self pro claimed artivist transposes her marine biolo gy background into her fine sculpture work which has been making waves in the worlds of science and alike Mattison s chosen material is ceramic using calcium carbonate which coral is also made out of as an ingredient in the Artist and activist Courtney Mattison focuses on raising awareness about endangered coral reefs SPARKLE FADE TEXT ALEXANDRA PEREIRA

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