Eastern Sea Series
The beaches at Cape Cod are made of tiny grains of quartz; if you sift the sand through your fingers, or look closely at its surface, you can see them gleaming there. Storms wash up old glass, the bowl of a pilgrim's pipe and bricks as smooth as any polished stone. The landscape is populated with hummingbirds and seals, swans and gulls and a flock of crows to keep them all in order. Crabs scuttle for shelter and their shells dot the beach, bright red or pale beneath the sun. Lobster nets tangle with driftwood, and some who walk the beach leave scultpures of feathers, shells and rocks for other sojourners to admire.
It was a privilege to work with all of those gifts, and better still to work with
Aria Nadii in the creation of these new works. Her miniature paintings and fragments of other work in progress were treated as found objects along with the rest of the things I salvaged from the tide.
Most of these contain shells, stones and fisherman's rope as there were few bones to be found. Scrap wood lends to the rustic look of these completely beach-combed works. They are among my favorites of all the bone work I've done.
