The Blue Forest

An immersive installation that transports visitors into the underwater world of Catalina Island's iconic kelp forests. Created using historic photographic processes, the exhibition features life-size cyanotype images of native marine flora, collected by Poindexter while freediving off Catalina's shoreline and contact printed onto flowing silk panels. Visitors wander through a labyrinth of luminous, ocean-blue silk depicting giant kelp, elk kelp and other local species. For the first time in her work, Poindexter incorporates an underwater soundscape built from her own ocean recordings, deepening the sense of being submerged.