Jo Atherton, ‘Plenty More Fish in the Sea’, Mixed media – flotsam from the Cornish coast including netting, fishing line, and lobster trap tags, 2014. Photo: Jo Atherton. Plenty More Fish in the Sea (2014) features a collection of lobster trap tags found on the Atlantic coasts of Ireland, Wales and England.
Each tag includes a year and location code: Newfoundland (NFLD) in Canada, Rhode Island (RI) and Maine (MA) in the USA are just some examples of the remarkable transatlantic origins of these tags.
Every object washed up on the beach has a story ? Where did it come from? How did it end up in the sea? For the most part we will never know, but that can?t stop us from wondering?