In my darkest waking hours, I feel deep grief for the future of our planet and our oceans. During the heat dome so many of our sea creatures perished. This piece pays homage to our shorelines and all the ocean dwellers.

Artist's photo, plaster gauze, acrylic paint, barnacles, altered book ('A Lamp in the Darkness' by Jack Kornfield.) By shaping and painting wet plaster gauze, I created these sea creatures in response to my shoreline photograph.