Ships of The Sea Maritime Museum Artist Residency

2024-2025

In collaboration with the maritime museum in Savannah, Georgia. Working alongside select ceramicists and fiber artists to create artwork inspired by Savannah’s nautical history. This work debuted at the inaugural Supper at Sea special fundraising event.

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She is the Ocean
She is the Ocean, detail
In the Eye of the Whale
In the Eye of the Whale, detail
I See Her Float
I See Her Float, detail
She is the Ocean in the studio
She is the Ocean through magnified lens
She is the Ocean through magnified lens
Layer one of In the Eye of the Whale
Layer one of In the Eye of the Whale
Layer two of She is the Ocean
She is the Ocean after first layer
Sculptural frameworks
Initial ideation, rope protruding and beading
Initial ideation sketches and swatch
Initial ideation, color study
Visiting exhibition site, Maritime Museum gardens
Visiting exhibition site, Maritime Museum gardens

Water sloshes as the great marble turns little wooden island I wish you well

Sediment of ecosystems boiled, steeped, and frothed

Deep monstrous hum

Daylight on crisp sails mirror of shifting time

She is the ocean in the eye of the whale I see her float