Oyster Floats
Spring 2024
with Randy Crandon
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Spring 2024
with Randy Crandon
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Sitting in Harvard Yard, though geographically close to the ocean, it is easy to forget the aquacultural farming history of Boston that continues in the region today. This project looks at elevating the ready-made vernacular design of working oyster shacks by memorializing them in brass miniatures. Each of the five floats acts as an aperture showing photography of the practice of oyster farming, bringing vouyers within Harvard Yard to the coast.
The exterior of each float is etched with an excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s, The Walrus and the Carpenter, highlighting themes of consumerism and greed in contemporary society. Oyster Floats lives on beyond its initial installation, including; Harvard Yard, Memorial Hall at Harvard, Harvard GSD’s Gund Backyard and Kirkland Houses, and lastly at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, MA.
Oyster Floats was written about in Harvard Magazine and Cambridge Day.
The exterior of each float is etched with an excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s, The Walrus and the Carpenter, highlighting themes of consumerism and greed in contemporary society. Oyster Floats lives on beyond its initial installation, including; Harvard Yard, Memorial Hall at Harvard, Harvard GSD’s Gund Backyard and Kirkland Houses, and lastly at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, MA.
Oyster Floats was written about in Harvard Magazine and Cambridge Day.
