charles mallison

Reclamation is an L.A.-based international artist group co-founded by L.A. RECORD Arts Editor Drew Denny and Kyoung Kim that now includes John Matthew Heard, Claudia Slanar and Edwina Portocarrero. Reclamation’s large-scale environmentally conscious installation series began with ‘Planetarium’ last summer and will be transplanted to the Netherlands this fall to gut a medieval chapel and establish a church to nature as part of project called ‘Terrarium.’ This month they open their second installation, ‘Aquarium,’ at Sea and Space Explorations in Highland Park. This interview by Charles Mallison.

What exactly is ‘Aquarium’?
John Matthew Heard: ‘Aquarium’ is a ‘green’ aqueduct constructed from discarded plastic bottles that filters grey water and feeds a garden planted by Drew’s CAP students—
Drew Denny: I teach Eco Art to high schoolers with Michelle Richter, Niki Rousso-Schindler and Juan Renteria at Whitman Continuation School. My studen