Nina C. Samoiloff

Nina’s growing awareness of the limitations of our resources juxtaposed against the beauty of her adopted hometown, the seaside village and art colony of Rockport, Massachusetts, compelled her to begin creating.

Nina only works with materials that have been discarded, man made objects discovered in the natural world, washed up on the beaches of Rockport. She manipulates these materials without drastically altering the form in which she finds them, and each sculpture, showing both the signs of artifice and nature, serves as a reminder of our tenuous relationship with the world we live in.

Daily beachside walks with her dog provide her with plenty of material. Her finds are documented on her blog, Catch, where she posts images every day of all the plastic detritus she finds, the artifacts of modern life.